Meaning Of The Word Hemiola

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hemiola in American English
especially in early music, time values in the relationship of three to two, as in a unit or measure divided into three beats followed by an equivalent unit divided into two beats
noun: a rhythmic pattern of syncopated beats with two beats in the time of three or three beats in the time of two

hemiola in British English
noun: a rhythmic device involving the superimposition of, for example, two notes in the time of three

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