His choice of chord voicings produced unique timbres, and he performed in a natural
polyrhythm relationship with the other accompanying instruments.
By accenting the landing of petit allegro steps or clapping mid-pirouette, the dancers create rhythms that layer into a complex melody, merging for unison sections before fracturing back into
polyrhythm. In the work's most effective moments, the music the dancers make with their feet seems to shiver up through their bodies, lending the classical steps a new vibrancy.
I know that, scientifically, once a person learns something called
polyrhythm, which is inherent in prog music, the person needs that kind of music in life.
Similarly the beginning of the Double Concerto (1961) creates a
polyrhythm often different speeds presenting one interval after another, each one associated with a particular speed that is used later in the piece.
Essentially, they are etudes focusing on problems different to those that instructive compositions usually target: rhythmic cycles and
polyrhythm, work with the sound mass, purity of articulation and the use of the phraseology of a particular style.
His reply is "get up in the hayloft, beauty." This drama takes place over a complex
polyrhythm typical to the accordion-led tipica music that listeners outside of Panama are likely unfamiliar with.
While watching the men perform, my feet started moving to the
polyrhythm of talking drums.
"But the program can tell at any place in the middle of this complicated
polyrhythm exactly where it needs to be."
The French band, which played a mix of European electro-beat, West African
polyrhythm, haunting Arabic and Middle Eastern melodies and all-stops-out rock, underscored that it knew no borders.
Indeed, when informed by the "sense" of "
polyrhythm" that Welsh Asante lists as first in her seven sense of the West African dance aesthetic, these "rhythms of reciprocity" function in a similar way as
polyrhythm functions in West African dance (1996).
We can hear the various economic, social, cultural and religious patterns as a part of the
polyrhythm of our city.