New subject: Learning/sharing/remembering rhythms

24 Feb 2017

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&gt; 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.
 __

 Erik Hoffman
 Oakland, CA

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