Sentence examples for rhythmic contours from inspiring English sources

The songs need not be sung at all, so long as the words are delivered with a musical gait and follow the rhythmic contours of the vocal lines.

He stuck gamely to his own idiosyncratic style, full of chopped-off phrases, unexpected rhythmic contours and rapid strings of clear, articulated notes during slow tempos.

The other musicians flattened his more baroque rhythmic contours and some of the hectic excitement was lost, but the success of Dimples (1956) proved the change of setting to have been a commercially astute move.

Roughly, it was a coupling of the melodic and rhythmic contours of European hymn singing with the textual aesthetics of Yoruba proverb- and praise-singing, all performed to the accompaniment of a banjo or guitar (or a similar stringed instrument) and a gourd shaker.

"Gérôme certainly knew that in the mosque the worshipers in communal prayer prayed and changed positions and gestures in unison," yet instead he added rhythmic contours and documented the range of local customs, the art historian Gerald M. Ackerman writes in the book.

Hindu and Buddhist paintings at Ajanta in India and also in Sri Lanka reveal the essential quality in all Indian art: emphasis on a flowing, rhythmic contour to express movement and gesture.

Importantly, all stimuli had similar acoustical characteristics (all major-minor tonal music), melodic contour, rhythmic structures and tempo, so, it is highly unlikely that simply the bottom-up processing of the stimulus characteristics contributes to activation patterns when contrasting different conditions.

In these case-patients, head nodding was associated with generalized electrodecrement, followed by generalized sharply contoured rhythmic theta activity, dropping of the chin, and paraspinal electromyographic abnormalities (7 ).

Specifically, learned rhythmic patterns and pitch contours are employed to characterize music styles.

This model makes use of automatically extracted music parameters, namely tempo, time signature, rhythmic patterns and pitch contours, to characterize music.

By Alec Wilkinson May 29 , 2011Gil Scott-Heron, who died late Friday at the age of sixty-two, wamongong the very first musicians to understand the power of declamatory singing, of holding forth above a line of percussion and blending words into the rhythmic peaks and recessive contours of beats.