Central-African rhythms

Here's an interesting and nicely made website that explains
why Pygmee rhythms are asymmetrical:
http://users.info.unicaen.fr/~marc/publi/diderot/pygmees.html

In terms of mode, they are MOS and tritoneless, if you'll
allow the analogy.
Take a look at the other two pages too.

Manuel

--- In tuning-math@y..., manuel.op.de.coul@e... wrote:
> Here's an interesting and nicely made website that explains
> why Pygmee rhythms are asymmetrical:
> http://users.info.unicaen.fr/~marc/publi/diderot/pygmees.html

For those of you (me too!) not fluent in French, copy the above link and paste it into the web page box on the page of the following link:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

Probably not a perfect translation, but a start...

Cheers,
Jon