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African hemiola style is a music rhythm common in Africa. Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity which involves organized and audible sound, though definitions vary. ...
A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. ...
A hemiola involves two bars in triple time (3/2 or 3/4 for example) played as if they were three bars in duple time (2/2 or 2/4). In modern musical parlance, a hemiola is a metrical pattern in which two bars in triple time (3/2 or 3/4 for example) are articulated as if they were three bars in duple time (2/2 or 2/4). ...
In musical notation, a bar or measure is a segment of time defined as a given number of beats of a given duration. ...
The time signature (also known as meter signature) is a notational device used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are in each bar and which note value (minim (half-note), crotchet (quarter-note), quaver (eight-note), and so on) constitutes one beat. ...
The interplay of two groups of three notes with two groups of two notes gives a distinctive pattern of 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2.
See also In modern musical parlance, a hemiola is a metrical pattern in which two bars in triple time (3/2 or 3/4 for example) are articulated as if they were three bars in duple time (2/2 or 2/4). ...
The music of Nigeria includes many kinds of folk and popular music, some of which are known worldwide. ...
References - Brandel, Rose (1959). The African Hemiola Style. Ethnomusicology 3(3):106-17, correction, 4(1):iv.
- Karolyi, Otto (1998). Traditional African & Oriental Music, Penguin Books. ISBN 014023107.
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