Learning Higher Music Concepts

e.g Triplet crotchets in the right hand against common time crotchets in the left.

Now listen to another excerpt.

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Often appears in Handel and music from earlier periods where music which has three beats in a bar moves to two beats and creates a cross rhythm over a bar line. This often happens to emphasise a cadence.

Now listen to another excerpt with hemiola in more modern music.

Doubling or increasing the note value of a theme in the continuation of a piece of music.

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Reducing the note value of a theme after it has been heard during the course of a piece of music.

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