The group reunites Persian and Indian classical styles, both based on melodic modes and rhythmic cycles.
Like Indian music, it is based on modes and rhythmic cycles, and it can spiral from long-breathed, meditative melodies to salvos of astonishing virtuosity.
Most Portal songs are loosely connected chains of arrangements; the unity is not on the song level but on the largest level, the band's constant use of certain modes and rhythmic patterns.
Especially important was the nawbah ("suite"), a form that included songs and instrumental music, free or metrical, that were linked together by melodic mode and rhythmic patterns.
Listening to her was at times like hearing a much younger Mr. Tyner, as he sounded toward the end of his time in John Coltrane's quartet: strong, resonant left-hand chords guiding the tonality in a mode, and powerfully rhythmic phrases in the right hand — but with a more flexible sense of time than he prefers now (or, in fact, did then).
In his three-part Alleluia Nativitas, the voices are in different rhythmic modes, and they are also distinguished by different phrase lengths, consisting of more or fewer repetitions of the rhythmic pattern.
To describe modes of clinical presentation and echocardiographic, angiographic, and rhythmic features, and prognostic characteristics of left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC) in North African adults, through one of the first series in Morocco.
Melodies are organized in terms of maqāmāt (singular maqām), or "modes," characteristic melodic patterns with prescribed scales, preferential notes, typical melodic and rhythmic formulas, variety of intonations, and other conventional devices.
The rock music the band makes — strongly hooked and rhythmic tunes that develop little past their opening expressions — recalls various 1970s and '80s pop modes.
We have chosen the control parameters of the model (3)–(6) in the area of the control parameter space where the basic dynamics of both cognitive and emotional modes demonstrate simple rhythmic activity (oscillations with a characteristic time scale of 2 3 sec).
Specifications of metre first appeared in written music as early as about 1200, when short rhythmic formulas called rhythmic modes (see rhythmic mode) came into use, implying repetition of simple triple patterns.
