In music, a cross-beat or cross-rhythm is a specific form of polyrhythm. The term cross rhythm was introduced in 1934 by the musicologist Arthur Morris...
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music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level). The beat is often defined...
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Escapement (redirect from Cross beat escapement)
to run very fast, gaining many hours per day. Jost Bürgi invented the cross-beat escapement in 1584, a variation of the verge escapement which had two...
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Polyrhythm (section Cross-rhythm)
uninitiated ear to misinterpret the secondary beats as the primary beats, and to hear the true primary beats as cross-beats. In other words, the musical "background"...
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Tresillo (rhythm) (section Cross-beat generation)
pulses in threes: 8 pulses ÷ 3 = 2 cross-beats (consisting of three pulses each), with a remainder of a partial cross-beat (spanning two pulses). In other...
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Quinto (drum) (section 4/4 cross-beat cycle)
cross-beats [pulses grouped in sets of six], regular cross-beats, and offbeats [grouped in threes]. The first cycle begins with half-time cross-beats...
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Syncopation (section Off-beat syncopation)
vocal rhythm causes the loss or addition of sounds to a word Hemiola Cross-beat Nu metal, a subgenre of heavy metal music created in the 1990s, utilizing...
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generated through cross-rhythm: 8 pulses ÷ 3 = 2 cross-beats (consisting of three pulses each), with a remainder of a partial cross-beat (spanning two pulses)...
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Rhythm (section Pulse, beat and measure)
interrelationship between a single, accented (strong) beat and either one or two unaccented (weak) beats. In the performance arts, rhythm is the timing of...
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having a "bounce", it has a 3+3+2 (tresillo) cross-rhythm with a slight syncopation on every other half-beat. While dembow is the main building block of...
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