Music A-Level
Rhythmic ambiguity
What Rhythmic ambiguity means in Music A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Rhythmic ambiguity
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Created by metrical displacement, as the listener perceives the original internal accents of the motif clashing with the written time signature.
Topics that use Rhythmic ambiguity
- Area of study 7: Art music since 1910 - Musical elements (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- 20th-century chord structures
- 20th-century compositional techniques
- 20th-century rhythmic innovation
- A cappella
- Additive and subtractive processes
- Alternatives to functional tonality
- Atonality
- Atonality and tonality
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