In his fascinating paper, "Comparing Timeline Rhythms in Pygmy and Bushmen Music," Adrian Poole offers a new perspective on an old debate regarding the historical significance of the many apparent affinities between African Bushmen and Pygmy music by focusing on "the analysis of one central musical feature that has received little attention in the literature: timeline rhythms." What makes this topic particularly intriguing is the way in which such rhythmic patterns lend themselves to mathematical analysis, a property which enables Poole to produce a very interesting phylogenetic tree from a simple algorithm. His thorough comparative study of these very distinctive rhythms, as found among African hunters isolated for thousands of years in remote regions of that continent with little likelihood of mutual influence, represents a significant contribution to our understanding of certain basic principles underlying both African and African-American rhythms, with additional insights relating to the "deep history" of the timeline on that continent and beyond.

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阿德里安·普尔（Adrian Poole）关于《侏儒与丛林人》音乐中时间线节奏比较的评论

阿德里安·普尔（Adrian Poole）在他的引人入胜的论文“比格米和布什曼音乐中比较时间线节奏”中，对旧的辩论提出了新的观点，该辩论涉及非洲布什曼和皮格米音乐之间许多明显的亲和力的历史意义，其重点是“对一个中心的分析”。文献中很少受到关注的音乐特征：时间轴节奏。” 使这个主题特别引人入胜的是这种节奏模式适合进行数学分析的方式，该特性使Poole可以通过简单的算法生成非常有趣的系统进化树。他对这些非常独特的节奏进行了全面的比较研究，这一发现是在该大陆偏远地区几千年来孤立的非洲猎人中发现的，彼此之间相互影响的可能性很小，