Cross-beat
（重定向自Cross rhythm）
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- This article is about music. For horology, see Cross-beat escapement. For cross-beat tonguing, see tonguing. For the Christian media organization, see Cross Rhythms.
In music, a cross-beat or cross-rhythm is a specific form of polyrhythm. The term cross rhythm was introduced in 1934 by the musicologist Arthur Morris Jones (1889–1980).