Music A-Level
Rhythmic flexibility and speech patterns
What Rhythmic flexibility and speech patterns means in Music A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Rhythmic flexibility, including changing metres and syncopation, which closely mirror natural speech patterns.
Topics that use Rhythmic flexibility and speech patterns
- Area of study 4: Music for theatre - Named composers (AQA A-Level)
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