Sentence examples for rhythmic dislocation from inspiring English sources

Stravinsky trades in rhythmic dislocation, while Prokofiev builds cumulatively over steady ostinatos.

In Mr. Sherman's performance the effect comes across not like a gag but like a bold act of rhythmic dislocation.

This creates a temporary rhythmic dislocation, similar to what jazz drummers such as Tony Oxley and Tony Williams had been developing in the 1960s.

The bold rhythmic dislocations in the finale counter the surface humor.

The grimly tumultuous first movement, called "Dies Irae," is saved from sinking into film-scorish melodrama by its astringent harmonic language and surprising rhythmic dislocations.

Mr. Carter's 1981 setting of six Lowell poems is uncompromisingly complex music, thick with tart atonal harmony, ingeniously intertwining counterpoint and rhythmic dislocations galore.

For all its complexities (leaping double stops, metric modulations, rhythmic dislocations, long spans of sustained lyricism that get rashly interrupted by skittish figurations), the cello part has a rhapsodic, improvisatory quality.

Though the second movement, a Mahlerian minuet, was appropriately elegant, Mr. Levine made much of the music's off-rhythmic dislocations and agitated inner voices.

Nyman says that "the topography of MGV should be experienced without reference to planning, description or timetables", but there's a subtle interplay between small-scale rhythmic patterns and dislocations, as well as a bigger journey which is articulated by its five inter-connected sections.

The earlier of the pair, Nodding Trilliums and Curve-Lined Angles, from 1990, is effectively a six-movement concertante piece featuring different selections of percussion instruments in turn, and using them to generate brightly coloured textures of teasing rhythmic complexity and tempo dislocations.

They are: (a) origins of secondary effects of rhythmic character in thin films and (b) generation of isochiral dislocations and torsions in twisted lamellae.