Unlike his predecessors, Plautus specialized, writing only comedy involving high spirits, oaths, linguistic play, slapstick humour, music, and skillful adaptation of rhythm to subject matter.
His works are noted for their skillful integration of lively rhythms with colourful melodic motifs and refined harmonies.
Kutiman took these and, taking inspiration from sampling culture, deftly wove the disparate performances together, linking them through loops and rhythms with skillful production.
As a young man, Gilberto developed a novel sound, fusing samba, jazz and traditional Brazilian rhythms, carried by skillful guitar technique.
(Less skillful hands tend to distort something — sense, rhythm, syntax — to force rhymes into place).
And that context is a new-style New York rhythm section, as shrewd and skillful as they come.
As some previous productions have for approaching four hours, this is a tribute to the skillful editing of director Anthony Page and the rapid rhythm of actors David Suchet and Laurie Metcalf.
Because his songs rely so heavily on looped samples and relentless, machine-made rhythms, Reznor has had to find musicians skillful enough to play along with lockstep noise.
His achievements included the skillful blending of music and sound effects with an imaginative visual rhythm.
Only thus, perhaps, can we begin to glimpse the rhythm that has, for more than a century, governed these hard, skillful, good-humored American lives, and which has itself been cut short.
