Description
This paper will illustrate how different cultural contexts contributed to shape the rhythmic variety of European music from the late 15th to the early 18th century, connecting some of its features to the Islamic world (from the Persian-Arabic matrix up to Turkish hegemony) and West Africa. Particular rhythmic patterns, with asymmetric, syncopated or hemiolic characteristics, will be described and compared. The repertory analyzed will be mainly Iberian in origin, but musical exoticism in Lully's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, in their relation to either Turkish or Iberian models, will be also examined.
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Primary author
Manuel Ferreira
(Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
