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Rhythm meaning
The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter. | A specifically defined pattern of such variation. | A flow, repetition or regularity.
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He said rhythm can be looked at from various angles-straight rhythm, cross rhythm and split rhythm.
A rhythm that accents another beat and de-emphasises the down beat as established or assumed from the melody or from a preceding rhythm is called syncopated rhythm.
Neurologist Oliver Sacks states that chimpanzees and other animals show no similar appreciation of rhythm yet posits that human affinity for rhythm is fundamental, so that a person's sense of rhythm cannot be lost (e.g. by stroke ).
For one day only meet Rhythm and Glas on a park bench, Will they find a way to create something remarkable; a rhythm that is theirs alone?
The 1956 appearance was so successful that she got her own weekly segment, “This Is Rhythm,” in which she invited performers from diverse backgrounds to demonstrate rhythm on “instruments” like tin cans, oatmeal boxes and typewriters.
The highest form of prayer is the celebration of the Holy Mass. This is at the heart of the rhythm of the life of the Church, the rhythm of prayer which sustains us all.
Relax, take deep breath and match the rhythm of what they are talking about and use that same rhythm to converse back to them.
McCutcheon immediately makes a beeline for the dancehall crates, and waxes lyrical over the Greensleeves Rhythm Album series, one of the longest-running of its kind, where various artists interpret the same rhythm.
Once you don’t get some rhythm 3’s, they get a little out of rhythm and maybe their shooting percentage is not going to be as good as it usually is.
An organism whose circadian clock exhibits a regular rhythm corresponding to outside signals is said to be entrained ; the rhythm so established persists even if the outside signals suddenly disappear.
Aristotle, Poetics I 1447a For example, music imitates with the media of rhythm and harmony, whereas dance imitates with rhythm alone, and poetry with language.
Cardiac arrest A rhythm strip showing a couple beats of normal sinus rhythm followed by an atrial beat and asystole ("flatline").
Characteristics Rhythm The rhythm section of a funk band--the electric bass, drums, electric guitar and keyboards--are the heartbeat of the funk sound.
From our perspective, "Rocket 88" wasn't the first rock and roll record, because the beat is a shuffle rhythm, not the distinctive rock rhythm heard first in the songs of Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
In 1929, the Rhythm Boys appeared in the film The King of Jazz with Whiteman but Bing's growing dissatisfaction with Whiteman led to the Rhythm Boys leaving his organization.
In 1940 Bob Zurke released "Rhumboogie," a boogie woogie with a tresillo bass line, and lyrics proudly declaring the adoption of Cuban rhythm: Harlem's got a new rhythm, man it's burning up the dance floors because it's so hot!
In those with a single guitarist, the guitarist may play lead and rhythm at different times or simultaneously, by overlaying the rhythm sequence with a lead line.
Measured rhythm ( additive rhythm ) also calculates each time value as a multiple or fraction of a specified time unit but the accents do not recur regularly within the cycle.
Music for percussive instruments without a definite pitch can be notated with a specialist rhythm or percussion-clef ; More often a treble clef (or sometimes a bass clef) is substituted for rhythm clef.
Next, there is the instinct for 'harmony' and rhythm, meters being manifestly sections of rhythm.