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hemiolas.
semiology
[see-mee-ol-uh-jee, sem-ee-, see-mahy-]
/ ˌsi miˈɒl ə dʒi, ˌsɛm i-, ˌsi maɪ- /
NOUN
semantics
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Though the sound of the strings in the opening is misty, it is swirling with syncopations, overlapping cross-rhythms and hemiolas, rhythmic devices that dissolve a listener’s grounding sense of a first beat to the bar.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2018
