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  2. Additive rhythm and divisive rhythm - Wikipedia

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    In music, the terms additive and divisive are used to distinguish two types of both rhythm and meter: . A divisive (or, alternately, multiplicative) rhythm is a rhythm in which a larger period of time is divided into smaller rhythmic units or, conversely, some integer unit is regularly multiplied into larger, equal units.

  3. Septuple meter - Wikipedia

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    This treatment of rhythm subsequently became so habitual for Stravinsky that, when he composed his Symphony in C in 1938–40, he found it worth observing that the first movement had no changes of meter at all (though the metrical irregularities in the third movement of the same work were amongst the most extreme in his entire output). [25]

  4. The Rite of Spring - Wikipedia

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    The Rite of Spring [n 1] (French: Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich.

  5. Additive rhythm and divisive rhythm - en.wikipedia.org

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    In music, the terms additive and divisive are used to distinguish two types of both rhythm and meter:. A divisive (or, alternately, multiplicative) rhythm is a rhythm in which a larger period of time is divided into smaller rhythmic units or, conversely, some integer unit is regularly multiplied into larger, equal units.

  6. List of compositions by Igor Stravinsky - Wikipedia

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    Stravinsky's Russian period is characterized by the use of Russian folk tunes and the influence of Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, and Taneyev. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] His neoclassical period reflected back to the techniques and themes of the Classical period , like his use of the sonata form in the first movement of his Octet (1923) and the ...

  7. Concerto for Double String Orchestra (Tippett) - Wikipedia

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    The influence of Bartok and Stravinsky can be shown, as well as that of the 17th-century English Madrigal School.From these, and folk-song, Tippett derives his distinctive and personal technique of 'additive rhythm'.

  8. Concerto in E-flat "Dumbarton Oaks" - Wikipedia

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    Concerto in E-flat, inscribed Dumbarton Oaks, 8.v.38 (1937–38) is a chamber concerto by Igor Stravinsky, named for the Dumbarton Oaks estate of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss in Washington, D.C., who commissioned it for their thirtieth wedding anniversary.

  9. List of musical works in unusual time signatures - Wikipedia

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    Concerto for Two Pianos by Igor Stravinsky, in the second movement. [96] Concerto in E-flat by Igor Stravinsky has a measure of 2 8 + 3 16 a few measures after rehearsal mark 4. [97] Donna Diana Overture, by Emil von Reznicek. [98] Douze études pour Caisse-Claire by Jacques Delécluse, in some measures of the last piece. [82]