Sentence examples for rhythmic device from inspiring English sources

How well a handful of pieces based on the same notion -- a rhythmic device, say, or a way of changing harmony -- will work depends on the composer's inventiveness.

"Jigsaw Falling Into Place": Hooray for the acoustic guitar as rhythmic device — now we're almost in the territory of R.E.M.'s "Chronic Town," or an elaborated version of the Feelies.

But Kushner said the director left the scene unchanged because it gave the audience "place holders," and it was "a rhythmic device" that was easier to follow than "a sea of names".

Settimia's songs make frequent use of dance rhythms and hemiola (a rhythmic device whereby pulses in groups of two occur simultaneously with pulses in groups of three), and they demonstrate a fluid melodic style.

The musical context for that voice is provided by Hearst and her husband, Michael Trent – and give or take the stray intrusion of an instrument or production or rhythmic device, it adheres faithfully to non-expert listeners' idea of what country music should be.

A rhythmic device which regroups notes in simple triple time into groups of two beats rather than three.

His second essay (1719) also includes an important discussion of possible metric changes and rhythmic devices for transverse flute.

Linearity means an emphasis on melodic tension and release supported by or held in further tension by rhythmic devices.

The music, written and arranged by Mr. Argue, an intense young composer from Vancouver, British Columbia, felt crowded with ideas: about jazz orchestration, minimalist rhythmic devices, post-rock textural dynamics.

Joplin published his first extended work, a ballet suite using the rhythmic devices of ragtime, with his own choreographical directions, in 1902.

Besides her gorgeous but formalized bossa novas, whose harmonies and rhythmic devices sound flown in from the late 1950's, there are songs like "Demasiado Blue" and "Inverno," which are almost airborne, freed from the duty of homage.