Sentence examples for rhythmic unit from inspiring English sources
noun
A durational pattern which occupies a period of time equal to a pulse or pulses on an underlying metric level.
Its core rhythmic unit -- with three percussionists, a bass player and the keyboardist who arranges the music, Rafael Ithier -- swung hard and spaciously, and occasionally with wild complexity.
The basic rhythmic unit of bluegrass is the semiquaver, which, in layman's terms, means a million notes going past in a mighty blur.
He spoke of the clave, the Afro-Cuban percussion rhythmic unit with three strokes on one side of each measure and two strokes on the other, as a process of tension and release.
A characteristic rhythmic unit in ensembles across central Africa is the double bell two open bells made of iron that are joined so they can be held in the left hand and struck with a stick held in the right.
Beat, in music, the basic rhythmic unit of a measure, or bar, not to be confused with rhythm as such; nor is the beat necessarily identical with the underlying pulse of a given piece of music, which may extend over more than a single beat.
From turntables to hair dryers, The Rotators play automatically as a rhythmic unit, keeping time thanks to the core instrument that brings it all together the Rotatorhead.
Melodic and rhythmic units organize into larger phrases and then into phrase patterns that involve repetition, variation, and contrast.
Feldman constantly tinkers with rhythmic units within each bar, and with color and energy levels, although the prevailing dynamic marking is almost the softest possible, ppppp.
There is a theory, however, that the basic rhythmic units had the same durational value and were grouped in irregularly alternating groups of twos and threes.
As well as discovering new techniques, Messiaen found and absorbed exotic music, including Ancient Greek rhythms, Hindu rhythms (he encountered Śārṅgadeva's list of 120 rhythmic units, the deçî-tâlas), Balinese and Javanese Gamelan, birdsong, and Japanese music (see Example 1 for an instance of his use of ancient Greek and Hindu rhythms).
The smallest melodic-rhythmic unit (minimally two separately perceived sounds) is the motive.
