Sentence examples for rhythmic form from inspiring English sources

Each flamenco song and dance, by definition, has a set rhythmic form.

Perhaps it was in the riverine mimesis of Dart and A Sleepwalk on the Severn that Oswald's verse refined this ability to flow and ebb, using rhythmic form alternately to disperse and concentrate meaning.

In Montclair State University's "Peak Performances" series, the British-born choreographer Akram Khan performs "Gnosis" and "Vertical Road," with his signature fusion of dance theatre, European contemporary dance, and kathak, a highly rhythmic form of classical dance from northern India.

The idea of long, augmented tones and faster patterns going over them that are fixed in rhythmic form made a strong impression, and inspired my 1970 piece Four Organs.

To render the music more accessible to his guests, Kassar divided the material into sections — urban, rural, religious, etc. Mori was drawn to a rhythmic form called bashraf; others found an affinity with the breathing of Koranic music, drumming from the north of Egypt, Sufi music from the south.

(Chinen) FIELDWORK (Wednesday) On its potent new album, "Door" (Pi), this trio throws down a characteristic gauntlet of jagged melodies and asymmetrical rhythmic forms.

(Chinen) ★ FIELDWORK (Saturday) This collaborative threesome offers a gamut of jagged melodies and asymmetrical rhythmic forms; the heart of its sound is an ever-shifting rapport between the pianist Vijay Iyer, the saxophonist Steve Lehman and the drummer Tyshawn Sorey.

It's these tapestries and Piper's screen-printed preparatory studies – both characterised by their messy liveliness, jazzy, rhythmic forms and keen use of repetition – that are the highlights of this retrospective on his textile designs.

A very personal expression nevertheless, the Symphonie fantastique introduces a structural idée fixe, a theme (representing his mistress?) recurring throughout the five movements in various rhythmic forms, serving to unite the "scenes" musically as well as dramatically.

(Chinen) FIELDWORK (Thursday) "Simulated Progress" (Pi), the new album by this collaborative trio, throws down a gauntlet of jagged melodies and asymmetrical rhythmic forms; the heart of the group's sound is an ever-shifting rapport between the pianist Vijay Iyer, the saxophonist Steve Lehman and the drummer Eliot Humberto Kavee.

He seemed barely interested in his jokes, which he recited rather than performed, their standardized rhythmic forms—"Hey, you know what A is? It's B!"; "Yeah, let me tell you: C reminds me of D more like the mumbled monotones of some ancient scripture than like anything funny.