Timeline for Is there a specific name for music that sounds like it has no rests?
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| Nov 24, 2020 at 3:30 | comment | added | Aaron | Two favorite recordings of Paganini's "Moto Perpetuo": Wynton Marsalis and Sergei Nakariakov. | |
| Sep 11, 2016 at 12:45 | comment | added | Pat Muchmore | I agree that this is a good term to use, but in the case of Bach and other composers another useful term is fortspinnung. This is a frequent baroque term which translates as "forward spinning" or something like that. The precise meaning is debated, but it refers to the general tendency of baroque music (especially preludes and toccatas and such) to constantly push forward and elide cadences until the end. | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 21:04 | comment | added | John Kugelman | Perpetuum Mobile by Penguin Cafe Orchestra is frequently heard background music on This American Life. It's a beautiful piece. It's also deceptively hard to tap your foot to. It sounds like 4/4, but it's not. It's 15/8! | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 11:28 | comment | added | Shevliaskovic | I got that you intended to do something like, but the answer was going to end up on the Low Quality queue, and might receive some comments to expand etc | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 10:03 | comment | added | Tim | @Shevliakovic - thanks, I like to give OPs a bit to do themselves. We all learn more that way. At least, I always have...And there wasn't an answer without lots of ellipses... | |
| Feb 8, 2016 at 9:01 | history | edited | Shevliaskovic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 8, 2016 at 8:55 | history | answered | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |