He forsook classical prosody for a freer metre and a lively rhythm, reflecting the cadences of natural speech.
Mr. Burnett, dressed in baggy jeans, a khaki army jacket and Timberland work boots, sang some of his greatest hits and covered "Buckingham Palace," a song by his late friend Peter Tosh, as Noah's Arc supplied a lively ska rhythm.
His works, containing a lively realism, rhythm, and variety that were in opposition to contemporary French academic sculpture, form a prelude to the art of Auguste Rodin, who revered him.
According to the Lonely Planet, the country of Suriname is best described as a "warm, dense convergence of rivers that thumps with the lively rhythm of ethnic diversity".
The lively rhythm of the feet, the often sculptural fullness of the sustained poses, the unusual vivacity of the eyes (opening and closing them becomes rhythmic in itself), and the ravishing harmony of face, arms and torso make this a complex experience.
The piece, played at the start of a concert by the Glass Farm Ensemble in the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space on Friday evening, incorporates bursts of other composers' music produced with a radio, a phonograph or both, amid a frolicsome tumult of lively rhythms played on piano, tin cans and muted gongs.
In the midst of all this thunder and bombast, however, I retain a special fondness for the lively rhythms of a low-budget picture called "Drumline," made without big stars or grandiose ambitions, which opened on Dec. 13, just before the stampede of designated Oscar contenders.
AS Mr. Twist switched on a tape, the puppets flew into the air to the lively rhythms of a joyous Russian dance.
Mr. Ligeti, the son of the Hungarian-born composer Gyorgy Ligeti, was performing his own unorthodox works, which meshed West African melodies and lively rhythms in a jubilantly organized frenzy.
The following ballet of bayadères is carried by lively rhythms on an array of exotic percussion instruments, here joined by the ankle bells of the dancers.
The exasperated, exasperating tug of war between Tom and his mother here takes on the lively rhythms of an enjoyable comedy routine.
