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Facts

Also Known As cross-rhythm

Topics

Key People

Charles Ives
American composer
Elliott Carter
American composer
Elvin (Ray) Jones at Club Continental, 1956
Elvin Jones
American musician
Paul Creston
American composer

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Demystified