24 Feb
2017
24 Feb
'17
10:09 p.m.
The 123-123-12 rhythm appears in Middle Eastern, Balkan, and African music;
I would more than suspect that its occurrence in contra dance music has
come mainly via the African route, both via the slave influence in
Appalachian music and via the hippy/funky influence in modern contra.
The klezmer/Romanian 123-123-12 has a different inflection to it - a
different articulation - the late great Balkan dance/int'l folk dance
teacher Dick Crum called it a "Get your Papers Here" rhythm - more of a
2;1,2;1,2 articulation than a 3;3;2 articulation.
...Unless the rhythm you're thinking of is the rock-n-roll
boom-chuckboom-boomchuck - in which case we're back to the African
influence...
- Yaron
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 3:31 AM, Erik Hoffman via Musicians <
musicians(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hi Max & All,
Interesting that you learned the 3-3-2 rhythm as Klezmer.
- Klezmer rhythm (123-123-12)
So many of the people I've studied from say the 3-3-2 came from Africa. It
has invaded many other genres. When I first learned about it (other than
the clave), it came at me three times in one year:
* A bunch of fiddle bowings used in Old-Time Appalachian tunes (highly
slave influenced)
* A doumbek rhythm (an Arabic drum)
* In hamboning--body rhythm with African roots, from when slaves had
their drums taken away.
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Erik Hoffman
Oakland, CA
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