EXAMPLE TESTING

Example 1. Benadon’s Figure I.2

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Example 2. Benadon’s Figure 1.1, a “ratio cheat sheet” showing increasingly large long-short (LS) swing ratios, with ratios rounded to one decimal point

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Example 3. Benadon’s Figure 1.22, showing prototypical ratio relationships between short (S), medium (M), and long (L) durations

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Example 4. Benadon’s Figure 1.24, an analysis of Anat Cohen’s recording of Louiguy and Édith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose,” showing how pL and pS serve as reference points for duration length

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Example 5. Benadon’s Figure 6.3, depicting the triangular three-onset space

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Example 6. The superswing hexagon embedded within onset space. The open circle in the middle of the figure again represents isochrony

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Example 7. Benadon’s Figure 6.4, showing the derivation of the superswing hexagon from 1.22 and 1.5 ratios within onset space

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Example 8. My rendering of how four different three-onset rhythms (222, 231 and 321) are plotted in three-onset space

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Example 9. Benadon’s Figure 6.6, showing MLS (medium-long-short) rhythms plotted in onset space in Ellington’s initial recording of “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing),” with the superswing hexagon shown for reference

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Example 10. Benadon’s Figure 6.7, showing traversals of MLS (medium-long-short) rhythms through the superswing hexagon in Thelonious Monk’s rendition of Ellington’s “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)”

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Example 11. Benadon’s Figure 7.1, two ostinatos featuring similar distributions of onsets

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Example 12. Benadon’s Figure 8.14, a loop of two iterations of 23 in a 1/4 metric framework

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Example 13. Benadon’s Figure 8.15, an attack matrix for the 23 rhythm shown in Example 12

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Example 14. Benadon’s Figure 8.17, an analysis of Zakir Hussain’s tabla tihai in “Jail Taal,” (starting at 11:32)

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