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polymetre Mus.|ˈpɒlɪmiːtə(r)|
Also (U.S.) -meter.
[f. poly- + metre n.1]
a. The succession of different metrical patterns in sixteenth-century vocal music.
b. Music using two or more different time-signatures simultaneously. So polyˈmetric, -ˈmetrical adjs.; also ˈpolymetered a.
1922S. Grew in Contemp. Rev. Aug. 226 The first voice of the above has a ‘metre’ of four pulses, the second has a ‘metre’ of three; on the authority of the musical terms polyphonic and polytonic, I have ventured to coin and use the word polymetrical. Students of polymetre do not appear to have sufficiently considered the fact that in certain words Elizabethan accent was different from ours. 1944W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. 594/1 Twice in the history of music have polymetric designs played a prominent role: around 1400, and in present-day music. 1946R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) 344 The second type of rhythmic peculiarity, technically known as a polymetric, is the cross-rhythm or overrhythm. 1947W. Russell in R. de Toledano Frontiers of Jazz 60 The ability of Lux to create great swing and rhythmic effect from apparently so simple a polymetrical device. 1966C. Keil in T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out (1972) 90 It is a subjective pulse that Richard Waterman is speaking of when he uses the concept ‘metronome sense’ as the ordering principle in the polymetered rhythms of West African ensembles. In jazz groups polymeter or even a sense of polymeter may or may not exist, but the subjective pulse or metronomic sense remains. 1970P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 15 These [sc. characteristics of African music] included: dominance of percussion; polymeter; off-beat phrasing of melodic accents [etc.]. |