Lombard rhythm
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The Lombard rhythm or Scotch snap is a rhythm associated primarily with Baroque music, generally consisting of a stressed sixteenth note or semiquaver followed by a dotted eighth note or quaver. This effects a reverse of the dotted rhythm normally used in notes inégales, in which the longer value precedes the shorter. In Scottish country dances, the Scots snap is a prominent feature of the strathspey.
Collins English Dictionary definition of "Scotch Snap" - "a rhythmic pattern consisting of a short note followed by a long one"
[edit] Further reading
- Temperley, Nicholas; Temperley, David (September 2011), "Music-Language Correlations and the “Scotch Snap”", Music Perception 29 (1): 51–63, doi:10.1525/mp.2011.29.1.51
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