Sentence examples for measured rhythm from inspiring English sources

The word derives from the 13th-century Latin term cantus planus ("plain song"), referring to the unmeasured rhythm and monophony (single line of melody) of Gregorian chant, as distinguished from the measured rhythm of polyphonic (multipart) music, called cantus mensuratus, or cantus figuratus ("measured," or "figured," song).

To close the door on entering Mr. Clifford's office meant to close out the hurried pace of the 20th century and to return to the more measured rhythm of the 19th.

If either of these sides could have found some of the serenely measured rhythm with which Ipswich strode to the championship last season this game would not have kept the crowd guessing as long as it did.

If, dead-eyed from movies and television, I want to return to literature, I can pick up Book One of Karl Ove Knausgaard's "My Struggle," and pace with him through four hundred and forty-eight pages of the story of his life, doled out in the measured rhythm of what feels like real time, radically ordinary time, unshaped, unhurried, and uncensored.

The folds are cut deeply in a simple measured rhythm, a technique suggestive of the string drapery of the colossal image of the Buddha at Bāmīān, Afghanistan, which was a focal figure for all pilgrims traveling the Central Asian pilgrimage routes to Bāmīān and India; the statue was destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban.

Several choral sections are cast in marchy measured rhythms.

"He left Gregorian chants to create the first four-part music, using four voices, and his music introduced measured rhythms.

Within a five-minute stretch you heard balladlike saxophone phrasing; textural research from horns, guitar and piano, hissing and buzzing and plinking; long and pulsing saxophone solos produced with circular-breathing technique; measured, walking rhythm.

We measured force rhythm from the handles attached to the rope.

To further determine whether the rhythms of three key players in the tritrohpic system were controlled by the endogenous circadian clocks or induced by photoperiod, we measured the rhythm profiles under constant light (LL) and darkness (DD), respectively.

Physiologically measured circadian rhythm markers have been shown to be relevant for recording health [ 5] and illness [ 6].