Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word HEMIOLA

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Definitions of HEMIOLA

1. (music) The articulation of two bars in triple time as if they were three bars in duple time.

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Examples of Using HEMIOLA in a Sentence

• The Oxford Dictionary of Music illustrates hemiola with a superimposition of three notes in the time of two and vice versa.
• The most fundamental cross-rhythm in Ewe music, and Sub-Saharan African music traditions in general, is three-against-two (3:2), or six-against-four (6:4), also known as a vertical hemiola.
• Unfailingly melodic and characterized by a distinctive syncopation (created by a hemiola in which two measures of 3/4 become a single measure of 3/2), such music was precisely the sort of folkloric raw material which Smetana, Bartók or Granados had elevated to the category of national art in Europe.
• Other features include a five-layer drum pattern with a Funky Drummer break, and a C Mixolydian harmony intro and chorus with Afro-Cuban syncopation and hemiola.
• In an effort to elicit an effect of gasping for breath, Brahms inserts a hemiola over the lyric Wasser von Klippe zu Klippe geworfen.
• The lower manual part then remains silent, as new freely developed thematic material begins: first in parallel sixth semiquavers in the upper manuals accompanied by quaver motifs in the pedals; and then with briefly semiquaver motifs in the pedals before a three bar trio between the upper parts and pedal, leading to a hemiola with a cadence on the tonic A minor (thus, in the baroque musical style, two beats of 6/8 time are replaced by three beats of 3/4 time, ornamented on the last beat for the cadence).
• She often employs a contrapuntal use of lines that feature hemiola, cross-rhythm and phrasing, irregular phrasing and metric accents, rhythmic ostinatos, and mixed meters.
• The duple-pulse correlative of the three cross-beats of the hemiola, is known in Afro-Cuban music as tresillo.

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