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	Polyrhythm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A simple example of a polyrhythm is 3 evenly-spaced notes against 2, with the 3-beat pattern being faster than the 2-beat pattern, so that they both take the same amount of time.
		Other simple polyrhythms are 3:4, 4:3, 5:4, 7:4, etc. Another form of polyrhythm, which might also be termed polymeter, would be phrasing to suggest a different meter than the one being played by the rest of the ensemble.
		A common example of this in jazz would be phrasing quarter notes in groupings of 3 to suggest 3/4 time while the ensemble plays in 4/4.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Polyrhythm (495 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The paper begins by providing an overview of the harmonic structure, form, and voice leading of the composition itself.
		Through examining techniques of polymeter and accentual displacement, the idea of playing outside the meter in analogy to the more typical notion of playing outside the harmonic structure is developed.
		Polymeter is considered through two categories: "tactus-preserving" polymeter and "measure-preserving" polymeter.
	www.societymusictheory.org /html/events/abstracts/smt-98.abstracts/waters.html (280 words)

	Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum : Programs : For Teachers : Lesson Plans
		Polymeter: Two or more different beat organizations occurring simultaneously (the same excerpt of "Kashmir" has the instrumental part in triple meter, but the lyrics are in quadruple meter.
		Then have the students listen and keep track of often the down beats of each meter occur simultaneously [Polymeter] Now play the excerpt from "Variations on a Korean Folk Song" and ask the students to figure out which two meters are occurring simultaneously (1,2,3,4,5,6 and 1,2) and what instruments are performing in which meter.
		Play the same excerpts this time noting the structure of the scales and drone techniques being used to create tonality.
	www.rockhall.com /programs/plandetail.asp?id=945 (756 words)

	Polyrythms? [Archive] - TalkBass Forums
		In this case, the underlying pulse is the same (all playing 8th notes, for instance), but the # of beats between pattern repeats is different between the two parts.
		So in a five against four polymeter, the "five" pattern is played four times, and the "four" pattern played five times, before they start at the same time again.
		4 polymeter make up the same pattern as a 4 v.
	www.talkbass.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-80655.html (2091 words)

	NissanOffroad.Net - Next level performance chip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		With 2 needles and a Polymeter you can measure the Voltage of the MAF while driving and in different positions of the gas pedal...
		Have a friend of yours and the polymeter.
		If you use a polymeter (You know the apparatus that can measure,Voltage,Amperage and Ohm) then you know exactly what to connect and what not.
	www.nissanoffroad.net /messageboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18269 (1105 words)

	Rhythmic Training for Dancers. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The class activities, exercises, and worksheets are structured within six categories of study: aural skills, rhythm activities, vocal training, notation, dance technique and pedagogy, and choreography.
		The workbook's 10 chapters are: (1) "Musical Time: Beat"; (2) "Phrasing"; (3) "Organization of Musical Time"; (4) "Time Signatures"; (5) "Extending Time and Further Rhythmic Manipulation; (6) "Compound Time"; (7) "Triple Meters"; (8) "Polyrhythm and Polymeter"; (9) "Natural Sound; and (10) "Body Percussion." Worksheets, checklists, and assessments are appended.
		The CD-ROM, "An Interactive Guide to Music for Dancers," presents video samples of dance combinations from technique classes, explores rhythm and meter through audio and video samples, and offers three interactive environments for practice.
	www.eric.ed.gov /sitemap/html_0900000b80178652.html (162 words)

	Flora Lee : Reading Summaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Both polymeter center and savannah are a mix of malls, houses, and streets.
		However, savannah differs from polymeter center in having “pre-established frame work.” Savannah is built on the “pre-established frame work.” The city starts with the defining whole shape first.
		On the other hand, polymeter center combines already built buildings throughout history and defines them as one area.
	herring.cc.gatech.edu:8000 /coolpac/533 (3891 words)

	PERCUSSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Percussion Ensemble encourages the development of the traditional orchestral, rudimental, contemporary, and world drumming approaches to percussion performance.
		Advanced knowledge of polyrhythm, polymeter, hand drumming and sticking techniques, found instrument exploration, ensemble balance, and accurate performance articulation on a wide variety of percussion instruments is gained through rehearsals and performances with this ensemble.
		Founded in 2003 by the current director, Scott K. Lang, NKU's Steel Band explores the music of steel drums from the traditional music of Trinidad and Tobago to contemporary arrangements.
	www.nku.edu /~music/percussion.htm (375 words)

	How would I write this (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		I set out to write a polymeter riff in an odd time with an uneven number of bars.
		What I wrote was in 9/8, with a master time of 5/4 in three bars till the repeat.
		Is this even a polymeter any more, or just a 15/4 riff?
	www.tandjent.com /meshforum/viewtopic.php?t=12245 (352 words)

	Slave Labor On Mars
		The CD is punctuated by acoustic guitar work extant in a digital remastering of Spring Thaw and the previously unreleased Open.
		A digitally remastered version of Tombs of the Pharaohs, an electric polymeter from the earlier release The Galaxy Gift, underscores the change in the sound due to the new digital production--amounting to a revolution in the sound quality now attainable by cottage recording industries.
		The richness in sound far exceeds the quality of commercial production houses, which often role off much of the brilliance and depth of digital recordings for the mass market, pandering to the lowest common denominator in home audio (i.e.
	www.secondsufis.com /slavlab.html (339 words)

	S A N \| F R A N C I S C O \| C L A S S I C A L \| V O I C E
		It is a group of four poems written by Getty himself, interrupted by an orchestral “War Interlude,” and concluding with a short poem by Stephen Vincent Benét.
		“Hark the Homeland,” full of rolling polymeter, creates a menu of place-names and uneasy drama.
		“Heather Mary” is a dialogue between women and men, employing more polymeter, a gratifying timbral sense in the orchestra, and typically gorgeous sound from Julie Giacobassi on cor anglais.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/sfsym_3_2_04.php (934 words)

	Non-musician's opinions - Page 5 - Jazzcorner's Speakeasy
		"Wouldn't that be a polymeter, as it all of you seem to be playing at the same tempo?"
		I think technically what is happening IS a polymeter, but the effect becomes metric modulation.
		As gnhrtg points out, when you stop audibly referring to the dominant rhythmic pulse and only accent the subdivided rhythms, it creates something different than simple syncopation.
	jazzcornertalk.com /speakeasy/showthread.php?t=6024&page=5 (2944 words)

	American Composers Forum
		I produced the whole of this album(TRIANGLEMETRE) on the computer, in the musical measure of the triangle – the triangle-meter.
		I established the musical measure of the triangle by the alternation of several (2 or 3) different measures (polymeter – poly [several] and metron [measure]).
		This was done according to the horizontal poly-meter, where changes of measure follow one after another (in the ratio of each dimension of the triangle): A/n + B/n + C/n.
	www.composersforum.org /member_profile.cfm?oid=2173 (357 words)

	RE: Your favourite virtuoso drummer
		AT THE SAME TIME, with his RIGHT side he is playing a groove in 4/4 on top of the left side ostinato, creating a 10:4 polyrhythm.
		That's an example of compound/dual time signatures, which in turn, creates a polymeter- not to be confused with the term "polyrhythm."
		So that is what a polymeter is. If you count 1eandah2eandah3e over the course of 2 bars of 4/4 the rhythm will repeat on the third bar.
	www.mikeportnoy.com /forum/printable.aspx?m=1004351&mpage=3 (1424 words)

	Do I know Polyrhythms? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The polymeter shows the same pattern as the polyrhythm :\
		there's no real differennce between polymeter and polyrhythm...
		Actually, Polymeter means more than one meter, as in more than one time signature...but really it is all VERY related because you could describe a polymetric riff as polyrhythmic, but the polyrhythm would be whole notes, since a whole note is one bar....
	www.tandjent.com /meshforum/viewtopic.php?t=10722 (662 words)

	Coaching pays handsomely for young guns of classical music
		The group (Hasse Borup and Se-Yun Lee, violins; Stephen King, viola; and Amy Leung, cello) brought an impressive blending of playing styles to the single movement Schubert piece, imbuing the opening minor section with a dramatic fire, relaxing later into the lyrical second theme, reminiscent of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony.
		Stravinsky's "Three Pieces," from 1914, are curious, delightful miniatures that include such stylistic features as ostinato, polymeter and extended harmonic palettes.
		The Coolidge Quartet showed the variety and control that helped accentuate the music's rarefied and delicate aspect.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~hb4j/sandiegotribune.html (358 words)

	African Rhythm
		Rhythm is something we follow and is largely determined in reference to the melody.
		Musicologists refer to it as polymeter or multiple meter
		African music can only be notated by assigning different meters to the different instruments of the ensemble.
	www.notz.com /africa_lec/sld005.htm (237 words)

	Oberlin College Course Catalog
		Prerequisites: proficiency on a musical instrument; knowledge of scales, key signatures, intervals, and chords.
		A continuation of concepts introduced in JAZZ 150, 151 (Jazz Improvisation) and an introduction to more recent improvisational concepts such as absence of a pulse, panmeter, and polymeter.
		A one-year survey of musical styles and forms cultivated by African Americans.
	www.oberlin.edu /catalog03/con/jazz_studies.html (640 words)

	Cynic - CORTLANDT REVIEW #2
		Many of you may know Sean Malone from the articles that he submitted to Bass Frontiers ("What is the Chapman Stick?" - Dec. '95, "Polyrhythms and Polymeter" - Mar. '96).
		For those of you who don't, Sean is a very gifted musician who performs and records on both the bass and the Chapman Stick.
		As creator of The Stick and its' method, I'm proud to see his illustrious work added to the repertoire of featured Stick artists"
	www.cynicalsphere.com /rev_cortlandt2.html (290 words)

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		How would your best characterize the artistic trends of the early 20th century?
		Chapter 62 Define polyrhythm, polymeter, and changing meters.
		Who developed the 12 tone method or serialism of composing music?
	critical.tamucc.edu /~wiki/uploads/KellieJarvis/review5.doc (676 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Long Term [Active]: direct reading scaled tubes for time weighted average measurements.
		Dräger Polymeter is a peristaltic constant flow pump which has a flow rate of 15cc per minute.
		Use with long-term tubes to determine time weighted average concentrations with immediate results without laboratory analysis.
	www.safetysystemshawaii.com /page.jsp?p=187 (260 words)

	Muse-Eek Publishing and Recording Company
		This course will involve various aspects of improvising counterpoint on guitar starting with Renaissance species studies and Fantasia form through contemporary idioms.
		A special focus will be on polymeter and asymmetrical meter derived from Balkan and African music as well as modal and polymodal harmonic languages.
		To make things still more challenging and comprehensive, I will also introduce process of motivic transformation in composition and improvisation.
	www.muse-eek.com /nyu/courses.html (710 words)

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