Definition of rhythm

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Rhythm (n.) In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like..

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Movement :: Movement (n.) One of the several strains or pieces, each complete in itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a symphony..
Arsis :: Arsis (n.) That elevation of voice now called metrical accentuation, or the rhythmic accent..
Rhythmer :: Rhythmer (n.) One who writes in rhythm, esp. in poetic rhythm or meter..
Cadence :: Cadence (n.) A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet..
Numerous :: Numerous (a.) Consisting of poetic numbers; rhythmical; measured and counted; melodious; musical.
Rhythm :: Rhythm (n.) Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent..
Arrhytmy :: Arrhytmy (n.) Want of rhythm.
Sphygmophone :: Sphygmophone (n.) An electrical instrument for determining by the ear the rhythm of the pulse of a person at a distance.
Syncopation :: Syncopate (v. t.) To commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags..
Rhythmics :: Rhythmics (n.) The department of musical science which treats of the length of sounds.
Tune :: Tune (n.) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air..
Rhythmic :: Rhythmic (a.) Alt. of Rhythmica.
Arhizous :: Arhizous (a.) Alt. of Arhythmou.
Mastersinger :: Mastersinger (n.) One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
Rhythming :: Rhythming (a.) Writing rhythm; verse making.
Movement :: Movement (n.) The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece..
Melody :: Melody (n.) A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and characteristic in expression..
Music :: Music (n.) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.
Suiting :: Suite (n.) One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form..
Rhythmus :: Rhythmus (n.) Rhythm.
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