Full Version: Cross Rhythms
Right, I've read somewhere that the Minute Waltz by Chopin (No.6 in D flat from Op.69) has cross rhythms...what are they?
I always understood it to mean things like 3 against 2.
QUOTE(CGP Edexcel Music Revision Guide)
Tension-building effect - two rhythms that don't quite fit together are played at the same time. Used in African drumming.
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where, in the orchestra for example, the 1st violins are playing in 3/4 and the 2nds are playing in 2/4 i think. (anybody feel free to correct me)
There are some three against two bits. I only have a simplification, mind.
Ahhh I see! Kinda like the Fantasie Impromptu (an excellent study in that kinda thing!)
Rhythms in a bad mood?
Edit: The rest of this post deleted because it was completely wrong.
Hey-ho
Steve
Edit: The rest of this post deleted because it was completely wrong.
Hey-ho
Steve
QUOTE(SteveHopwood @ Jan 5 2006, 10:10 PM) 
They come in the middle section. The melody goes from minim to tied crotchet across the bar line to minim. Hence 'cross' rhythm.
I thought it was like quadruplet crotchets against 3 regular!
QUOTE(SteveHopwood @ Jan 5 2006, 10:10 PM)
The technical term for this is hemiola.
I thought that was a disease!
For what it's worth, the notorious wikipedia links cross-rhythm to polyrhythm:
"Polyrhythm is the simultaneous sounding of two or more independent rhythms. A simple example of a polyrhythm is 3 evenly-spaced notes against 2, with the 3-beat pattern being faster than the 2-beat pattern, so that they both take the same amount of time...."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-rhythm
"Polyrhythm is the simultaneous sounding of two or more independent rhythms. A simple example of a polyrhythm is 3 evenly-spaced notes against 2, with the 3-beat pattern being faster than the 2-beat pattern, so that they both take the same amount of time...."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-rhythm
QUOTE(IrisH - LoonY @ Jan 6 2006, 01:18 AM)
I thought it was like quadruplet crotchets against 3 regular!
You're dead right. Don't know what I was thinking last night.
Sorry about that.
Steve
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