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42.58Level 29 — three-against-five feeling

Use a three-beat melodic cell over 5/4.

Do not necessarily conceptualize this as a formal polyrhythm.

Just feel:

three-beat phrase cycle

against five-beat meter.

The alignment returns after 15 beats.

That is three bars of 5/4.