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6448 / 18210 · Workshop 47 — “Freedom Jazz Dance”: Displaced Accents, Motifs That Refuse the Barline, Quartal Harmony, and Making 4/4 Feel Unstable Without Changing Meter← prev⊞ allnext →

47.11This is rhythmic transposition

In harmony we transpose:

C major → D major.

Here we are effectively transposing the riff along the time axis.

Same interval pattern.

Different temporal starting point.

A very useful analogy.