Contrast with straight rhythm
What Contrast with straight rhythm means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Distinguished from styles that keep straight, even quavers rather than the unequal long–short lilt across the beat.
Straight quavers divide the beat into two equal halves, unlike the shuffle's uneven long–short pattern.
Topics that use Contrast with straight rhythm
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Tempo, metre and rhythm (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Distinguishing rhythm devices
- Dotted rhythm
- Metre
- Note lengthening and shortening
- Recognising syncopation in styles
- Rhythm
- Rhythmic stress
- Swung rhythm
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