rhythm

£., rét’-moos), rhyth’mus, L. (in rhythme (rédhm), G. F. The “flow” and undulation of progre ion, marked by the rise and fall of stre and duration. The arrangement of accented and unaccented, and of long and_ short sounds. Rhythm usually follows some pattern which is repeated with more or le variation through an entire movement or composition. Rhythm might be called the melody of monotone. It is distinct from melodic or harmonic progre ion, and can be vividly shown on such an instr. as the drum, and it can be written on a single line without reference to pitch. The rhythm sometimes is so complicated that it is not completed in le than a musical period, vide ForM; but it is usually based upon a fundamental series of pulsations that can be expre ed within the limits of three or four or nine beats. These are accordingly taken as a unit and grouped within the limits of a measure, and cut off by two bars; the first bar being placed before the strongest accent of the group, the second after the weakest. Time may be expre ed by the regular swing of a baton; rhythm embellishes this baton pulsation, and usually coincides with it in accentuation, except in a syncopated rhythm. thythmique (rédh-mék), F., rhyth_misch (rét’-mish),G. Rhythmical.