Nesting Cycles

Nesting occurs when during one kind of cycle (usually of pitch) there are two or more repetitions of another kind of cycle (usually rhythm).

Masesa, Women and Girls in Southern Mozambique

Oscar Smith’s paradigm transcription of an ostinato cycle sung by women and girls in Southern Mozambique.

Uusuusuha, Panflute Music of the ‘Are ‘Are people of Malaita, Solomon Islands

John Lai’s analysis of a Solomon islands panpipe quartet that clusters several smaller cycles together to form a meta-cycle.

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