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Thread #65816   Message #1086885
Posted By: Gurney
06-Jan-04 - 02:59 AM
Thread Name: hemiola, correct term?
Subject: RE: hemiola, correct term?
And the Concise Oxford... of Music says:
Hemiola or Hemiolia. This rythmic device consists of superimposing two notes in the time of three, or three in the time of two.
It then gives a eample in 3/4 time.


I might understand that if I heard it.....