Sentence examples for repeated rhythm from inspiring English sources

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Its most unusual section is a doleful one in which dancers crawl back and forth to a melancholy and constantly repeated rhythm.

The repeated rhythm — two separated 8th notes followed by a stressed 8th leaning into an abrupt 16th — suggested words: Barbari-na, cavati-na, poveri-na (as in "poor thing").

It was a piece that defined the unique poetry of Adès's music: his way of making familiar musical objects, such as a simple melody or a repeated rhythm, sound rich and strange, and, on the way, reimagining the orchestra as a universe of colouristic extremes.

Judith Becker's "Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion, and Trancing" (2004) is for anyone who has ever tuned into a single chord or repeated rhythm, started "playing it" internally, found his perception and body language changing, and then wondered, 15 minutes later — after a gap in linear consciousness — whether he might have temporarily become the music itself.

"Just before I left to take the boat to come over to Kirkwall to take the boat to the mainland, to take the train to Inverness to come to London" – Orkney really is another world from where we sit in Baker Street – "I was composing this sequence of notes, and there was a series of 32 four-part chords in straight minims [a regular, repeated rhythm].

The pulse of these songs is provided by the repeated rhythm coming from the rhythm box.

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Repeated rhythms are "infected" by small deviations that grow and take up lives of their own.

David Salvage's "LINvioLINvio," for solo violin, began as a dry exercise in limited pitches and obsessively repeated rhythms.

There are repeated rhythms throughout.

As Glass's techniques did not allow Adams to accomplish what he wanted, he employed a system of constantly shifting metric organizational schemes to supplement the repeated rhythms in the opera.

Fox's words have a gentle repeating rhythm, as light-footed as the animal that has just left one scene: "Something, someone was just here.

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