The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65816 Message #1086989
Posted By: s&r
06-Jan-04 - 07:51 AM
Thread Name: hemiola, correct term?
Subject: RE: hemiola, correct term?
I don't know whether Fred's getting any help here, but I'm intrigued by the notion that hemiola is anything that crosses the barline (not arguing Vicki; just interested) I can see that if you have the situation described by Guest MCP there will be a crossed barline, i find on checking the manuscript that America is in 6/8 as I said above, and although in various trawls of the net as:"is a hemiola (alternate 6/8 and 3/4 rhythm, like the song "America" from "West Side Story"). ... " this is not shown as a change of time signature, nor are there any ties across barlines.
Could it be that the feel of the hemiola rhythm has been hijacked as a descriptive term for a range of similar rhythmic tricks?
Stu