At 10:38 PM 12/11/2007, David W. Fenton wrote:
>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 is correct about the original meaning of hemiola. However, the
situation Owain describes is also referred to as hemiola.
Groves says:
>By extension, 'hemiola' in the modern metrical system denotes the
>articulation of two units of triple metre as if they were notated as
>three units of duple metre
And as an example they give the well-known "I like to be in America"
from West Side Story, which fits the pattern as Owain describes.
Aaron.
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