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samengestelde binaire maat

English translation: compound duple time

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Dutch term or phrase:samengestelde binaire maat
English translation:compound duple time
Entered by: Jack den Haan

06:48 Jan 19, 2006
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Music
Dutch term or phrase: samengestelde binaire maat
Still on the subject of African music, I'd like some advice on the proper musical phrasing of one sentence in particular. The text concerns the "nwomkoro", once a purely vocal genre, now accompanied by various instruments (drums, rattles, bells). Phrases I'm stumbling over are "de groove is ternair samengesteld" (posted separately) and "samengestelde binaire maat".

De voorzanger begint met het reciteren van de liedtekst, gevolgd door de dubbele en de enkele bel die een ostinaat cross rhythm spelen. Daarna vallen de verschillende trommels in en wordt er een vaste cadans gespeeld. De groove, gespeeld door de atoke [= single bell] en de dawuro [= double bell], is ternair samengesteld maar naargelang het verloop van het nummer verandert het in een samengestelde binaire maat.

Best effort so far, based on research rather than musical knowledge (!):

"The groove (? main beat?), played by the atoke and the dawuro, is in compound triple time, but as the number progresses it changes to compound duple time."
MoiraB
France
Local time: 03:27
compound duple time
Explanation:
Please see previous answer.
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Jack den Haan
Netherlands
Local time: 03:27
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Thanks, Jack!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1compound duple time
Jack den Haan
2 +1binary compound time
Adam Smith


  

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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
binary compound time


Explanation:
Just a suggestion:

"The second stage of the rhythmic synthesis consists on the formation of groups. The groups are formed with base in compound times. The compound times are groups of two or three simple times, starting from the marked sounds with a vertical episemata; they receive the name of binary or ternary, respectively. They are equal to tempo of 2/8 and 3/8 in modern notation (1)

binary compound time

ternary compound time

Each one of these compound times, in their entirety, can be arsis or thesis of a rhythm. "

http://interletras.com/canticum/Eng/Rhythm_for_Groups.htm

See also, http://www.iselinge.nl/scholenplein/pabolessen/muziek2002200...

for a review of Dutch musical terms.



Adam Smith
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:27
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 7

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jack den Haan: Also correct, but duple (and triple) time are the more generally used musical terms as far as I know. Concise Oxford: duple time = rhythm consisting of two beats to the bar.
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
compound duple time


Explanation:
Please see previous answer.

Jack den Haan
Netherlands
Local time: 03:27
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Thanks, Jack!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Adam Smith
25 mins
  -> Thanks, Adam.
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