Sentence examples for rhythmic modes from inspiring English sources

In Notre-Dame organum, the organal style proper alternates with "descant" sections in which both melodies move rhythmically in accordance with the triple patterns of the late medieval system of rhythmic modes (see rhythmic mode).

A system of six rhythmic modes (short, repeated rhythmic patterns) evolved rapidly.

Rhythms are organized into rhythmic modes, or īqāʿāt (singular īqāʿ), cyclical patterns of strong and weak beats.

A system of rhythmic modes similar to īqāʿāt, called usul, is used in Turkish traditional classical music.

A student of Indian music, he incorporated Eastern rhythmic modes into his language to produce irregular but breathless rhythms that can instill passages with an infectiously jerky swing.

Of particular significance in view of its influence on polyphonic music was the metric system, which is based on six rhythmic modes.

A rhythmic mode varies somewhat, and the tempo can be varied within traditional limits.

Indications above each song in the "Book of Songs" show the mode, the type of third (major, minor, or neutral), and often the rhythmic mode.

During the 13th century such contrasts were carried still further in the motet, a musical form usually in three voice parts, each in a different rhythmic mode.

Rhythmic mode, one of a group of music theoretical abstractions that seek to capture and codify the main rhythmic patterns of French (primarily Parisian) polyphony of the late 12th and 13th centuries.

A typical performance consists of alternating sections of composed and improvised material, the composed portions being accompanied by percussion instruments beating one of a number of standard patterns that articulate the rhythmic mode.