quoted 1 line ===== Original Message From "joseph fitzpatrick" <jfitz@shelby.net> =====
>===== Original Message From "joseph fitzpatrick" <jfitz@shelby.net> =====quoted 5 lines could 'polyrhythmic' also be a reference to the countless changing
> could 'polyrhythmic' also be a reference to the countless changing
>and/or interpretation of a rhythm? after all, time signatures can be
>counted in more than one way. i believe it could be used that way as well.
>rather than meaning 'many rhythms' (which would be a direct translation of
>the word), it could perhaps mean 'many ways to count a rhythm'.
Yeah, it could be, and certainly the meaning of a word isn't normally the sum
of its parts (eg. "homophobic", deriving from Greek "same" and "fear"), but
it's not the way it has been used in discussion of music for a long long time.
Obviously if you go using a word, you can expect people to think you're using
the usual meaning unless you tell them otherwise what you're on about.
I'd accept that the usual meaning of "polyrhythmic" is now "complicated
rhythms", but I just get a little exasperated about the loss of a once useful
technical term. There is no longer a word I can use to say "containing
different parts in several time signatures simultaneously" without having to
be explicit that that's what I meant.
Michael
np. 'Luxsound' - Parmienter (this is _so_ beautiful, but, again, probably more
appropriate to some other list, eg. ambient or drone_on)
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