The early composers found that polyphony required a rhythmical organization to keep the parts together; so rhythmic metre was adopted (see Table).
In particular, the spectacular writing for a pair of timpanists and the bass drum typify not only the sound of the Rite but its physical impact as well – indeed, one can feel pulled by them into a rhythmical maelstrom of an almost tribal intensity.
Formally, it is rhythmical and choreographic, balancing blocks of text and images against blank areas.
Indeed, one of the most thrilling aspects of a good performance, even without choreography, is how it looks: few things on a concert platform can rival the display of so many musicians executing such jagged and unpredictable rhythmical shapes in perfect unison.
Some of the score's most electrifying moments come when opposed rhythmical strands are piled on top of one another.
Her poems are written with the deceptive casualness of a notebook, but they also have a rhythmical tightness; they are propulsive, forward-pulsing, knitting one line to another.
There is an accepted drum-circle etiquette ("Leave rhythmical space for other people to express themselves") and terminology ("percussion puppies" should not tease a "rhythm dork"), all laid out in Mr Hull's book, "Drum Circle Spirit".
He revelled in colossal statues, erecting more than any other Egyptian king, and it was he who had declared, in words less rhythmical than Shelley made them, "Should any man seek to know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works".As it happened, as Shelley and Smith were scribbling their competing sonnets, Ramesses II was on his way to London.
The poetry of the first decade, such as "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket", is remarkable for the vehement intensity of its rhetoric, the rhythmical compulsion of its lines, which are loaded, if not overloaded, with shimmering metaphor.
A ship is described as black, hollow, or symmetrical not to distinguish this particular ship from others but solely in relation to the qualities and demands of the rhythmical context.
Fluctuations in the major daily variables light and temperature can induce rhythmical changes in the metabolic activity of an organism; annual fluctuations in temperature and photoperiod can influence the availability of food and water.
