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  2. Cinquillo - Wikipedia

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    It consists of an eighth, a sixteenth, an eighth, a sixteenth, and an eighth note. Placing this rhythm in a 2/4 measure produces a strongly syncopated character from the sustained note which replaces an articulated one on the first quarter of the second beat. Cinquillo is an embellishment of the more basic pattern known as tresillo. Cinquillo ...

  3. Syncopation - Wikipedia

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    In music, syncopation is a variety of rhythms played together to make a piece of music, making part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat.More simply, syncopation is "a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm": a "placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't normally occur". [1]

  4. Eighth note - Wikipedia

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    An eighth note or a quaver is a musical note played for one eighth the duration of a whole note (semibreve). Its length relative to other rhythmic values is as expected—e.g., half the duration of a quarter note (crotchet), one quarter the duration of a half note (minim), and twice the value of a sixteenth note.

  5. Octatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    A transposition by 1, 4, 7, or 10 semitones will transform the E ♭ scale into the D ♭ scale, the C ♯ scale into the D scale, and the D scale into the E ♭ scale. Conversely, transpositions by 2, 5, 8, or 11 semitones acts in the reverse way; the E ♭ scale goes to the D scale, D to C ♯ and C ♯ to E ♭. Thus, the set of ...

  6. 10 Musical Geniuses Who Couldn't Read a Note of Music - AOL

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    The following list contains our picks for great musicians who wouldn’t know a key signature, an eighth note, or a staff if their lives depended on it. 10 Musical Geniuses Who Couldn't Read a ...

  7. List of musical works in unusual time signatures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.

  8. Counting (music) - Wikipedia

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    4 are counted 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a, using numbers for the quarter note, "&" for the eighth note, and "e" and "a" for the sixteenth note level. Triplets may be counted "1 tri ple 2 tri ple 3 tri ple 4 tri ple" and sixteenth note triplets "1 la li + la li 2 la li + la li". [3]

  9. Additive rhythm and divisive rhythm - Wikipedia

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    8 time. 1 whole note = 8 eighth notes = 3 + 3 + 2. The term additive rhythm is also often used to refer to what are also incorrectly called asymmetric rhythms and even irregular rhythms [ citation needed ] – that is, meters which have a regular pattern of beats of uneven length.