musical rhythm
- noun
- /ˈmjuːzɪkəl ˈrɪðəm/
- Specialized
:
ritmo musical
- Children often enjoy clapping hands to the musical rhythm of their favorite songs.
Examples
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To document these two arguments, this article recounts the various experiences of appropriation and recreation of musical rhythms and the corresponding relationships.
Academic text (1991) -
Students can readily see the wedding of words and musical rhythms in those measures where Loesser adds the word "benevolent" to a repetition of the title.
Academic text (2002) -
Each musical rhythm thus has its followers, and in some cases, a territorial capital: a city that adopts a rhythm as its symbol.
Academic text (1991) -
Fractions and other proportional concepts are reinforced when students learn musical rhythm and meter.
Academic text (2002) -
A triple meter, 12/8 time, is a musical rhythm known to all Koreans, who hear it from the cradle onward.
Academic text (2008) -
As they appropriated these musical rhythms, they generated stylistic differences, a style that identified them as a generation in the different ways they walked, dressed, and, a key element, in the way they danced.
Academic text (1991) -
We can see in the young child's emergent musicality that there are exposed predilections that relate intimately to the structural freedom of musical rhythm, which is often neglected, perhaps because it has nothing to do with "learning to count."
Academic text (2014) -
The drummer maintained a steady musical rhythm that kept the dancers in sync.
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In jazz, the interplay between instruments creates a unique musical rhythm that energizes the audience.
Synonyms
907
7.3
A regular pattern of beats in music
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3.3
A regular pattern of sounds and movements, often in music or dance
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1.0
A regular rhythm like the sound in music or a heartbeat
29
6.0
A regular pattern of strong and weak beats in a poem or song
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6.0
A regular pattern of sounds like speech or marching
A steady beat musicians follow to keep notes and players together
A steady beat that gives the basic timing in music or poems
A steady beat in music you can feel in your body or emotions
How Complex
- Specialized
1
7.5
- Specialized
2
8.0
- Specialized
1
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the regular pattern or unit of beats in a piece of music' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'musical' (relating to music) with 'rhythm' (a regular pattern of beats). This adjective + noun composition is a common and predictable lexical pattern across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Musical rhythm comes from a simple image: people making a steady series of sounds, like clapping, stamping or hitting tools, to keep time while working or dancing. That regular pattern of strong and weak 'beats' is why musical rhythm means the timing pattern that makes music move today.