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Author: Martin
Date: 2002-05-05 03:43
Does anyone know the name of the piece being played on tne home page of the Gervase de Peyer web site?
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Author: thomas piercy
Date: 2002-05-05 13:55
It is Arthur Benjamin's "Jamaican Rumba." A short, really cool piece that needs just the right easy going style to pull off successfully.
Tom Piercy
thomaspiercy.com
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Author: Martin
Date: 2002-05-05 14:06
Thank you, I have also found it by Emma Johnson on The Essential...
and Encores... CDs.
Martin Shapiro
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2002-05-06 17:44
Why does he start the top of the phrase so late? Jamaican does not play like this.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2002-05-08 11:21
I think the intro is really neat because has high interest and keeps one guessing about the rhythm, the time signature, and what is going to eventually come.
It is rather unorthodox. 4-4 timing, but with the rhythm starting after the 2nd beat of the first bar, with the melody beginning after the 3rd beat of the 9th complete bar.
And just to top it off, the 8 quavers of each bar divided into that natty grouping 123 456 78, with accents on the 1st, 4th & 7th quavers, so common in Jamaican music (think of the chorus of "Yellow Bird"). Yet the tune is a more conventional, although syncopated rhytmic pattern.
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