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Rhythm: The timing of speech, music, sound effects, or editing.

Polyrhythm: The simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns or meters, common in twentieth-century music and in certain African musics.

Isorhythmic Motet: Medieval and early Renaissance motet based on a repeating rhythmic pattern throughout one or more voices.

Rhythm And Blues: Popular African-American music style of the 1940s through 1960s featuring a solo singer accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble (piano, guitar, acoustic bass, drums, tenor saxophone), d . . . View Full Definition

Rhythm game: This is a broad term used to describe music and movement games that rely on rhythmically repeating specific button presses or movements in time with music. Most recently popularized with the . . . View Full Definition

Sprung Rhythm: A metrical system devised by gerard manley hopkins that has 1-to-4-syllable feet, each starting with a stressed syllable (sometimes a foot by itself), where the spondee replaces the iamb as . . . View Full Definition

Circadian Rhythms: Biorhythms that occur on a daily cycle.

Arrhythmia: Abnormal heart rhythm.

Free-Verse Rhythm: A free-flowing, nonmetric line in which movement is linked to the text inflections, as in Gregorian chant.

Reggae: Jamaican popular music style characterized by offbeat rhythms and chanted vocals over a strong bass part: often associated with the Christian religious movement Rastafarianism.