On 11 Dec 2007 at 23:29, Owain Sutton wrote: > > We also last night rehearsed the Williams/Brubaker "Harry > > Potter Symphonic Suite" which presents a single syncopated > > 6/8 bar containing three quarters - it follows > > regularly-pulsed 6/8 bars and created no angst. > > That's a hugely different situation, being a straightforward hemiola, > familiar aurally if not visually to anybody familiar with just about > anything baroque and a lot of stuff since. (And some stuff a lot earlier > ;) )
That's not a a hemiola -- its'a what I call a "reverse hemiola." A hemiola is where two measures of 3 are made into one large 3 with values twice the length of the beat in the 2 measures. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
