polyrhythm

This was the first use of polyrhythm in popular music.

This is a fundamental technique of African polyrhythm that transferred to popular western music.

An irrational rhythm, it may also be used as a polyrhythm when played against the regular duration.

Yet Sunday afternoon belonged to the power and pleasure of African polyrhythm.

In music, a cross-beat or cross-rhythm is a specific form of polyrhythm.

This is a rare example of polyrhythm in The Beatles' catalogue.

In some European art music, polyrhythm periodically contradicts the prevailing meter.

A repeating vertical hemiola is known as polyrhythm, or more specifically, cross-rhythm.

Jazz arose from the march of African polyrhythm into European instrumentation and melody.

The band mixes polyrhythm with samples and other electronic sounds and noise rock.

It was distinctive in its use of polyrhythm and polyharmony, particularly in the cowboy songs.

In the African polyrhythm was also the Merengue.

The absence of polyphony, polyrhythm, and motivic development.

An amateur musician, Ives wrote complex works using polytonality, polyrhythm and other devices considered radical at the time.

He is a self-conscious performer who loves melody, speed, volume and polyrhythm and knows that audiences like those things too.

His technique included the use of polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones.

Not surprisingly, Mr. Mela's songs deal rigorously with meter and polyrhythm.

See also polyrhythm.

Polyrhythm reference book.

Blackwood's initial compositions were not particularly unconventional although in them he employed polyrhythm and wide melodic contours.

This enduring tradition of fold polyrhythm played an important part in the development of Mississippi Blues".

Cross-rhythm refers to systemic polyrhythm.

Davidson developed his playing technique by attending the Berklee College of Music, where he focused on polyrhythm for jazz.

Across the African diaspora music finds beauty in patterns, in a mesh of parts that merges polyrhythm and counterpoint.

Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor uses polyrhythm frequently.