Usually means: Rhythmic ratio of 3:2 syncopation.
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  1. hemiola: Merriam-Webster
  2. hemiola: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hemiola: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hemiola: Wiktionary
  5. hemiola: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. hemiola: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. hemiola: Dictionary.com
  8. Hemiola: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. hemiola: The Folk File
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  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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

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hemitone, half-time, compound duple, triple time, double time, semiditone, quasihemidemisemiquaver, semidemisemiquaver, demisemihemidemisemiquaver, compound time, more...

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hemitone, half-time, compound duple, triple time, double time, semiditone, quasihemidemisemiquaver, semidemisemiquaver, demisemihemidemisemiquaver, compound time, more...



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