Rückert had a splendour of imagination which made Oriental poetry congenial to him, and he has seldom been surpassed in rhythmic skill and metrical ingenuity.

Music scholar Adam Krims says, “ the flow of MCs is one of the profoundest changes that separates out new-sounding from older-sounding music ... it is widely recognized and remarked that rhythmic styles of many commercially successful MCs since roughly the beginning of the 1990s have progressively become faster and more ‘ complex ’”.

Grout, in his History of Western Music, praises the music's extraordinary rhythmic and melodic vitality, and Bizet's ability to obtain the maximum dramatic effect in the most economical fashion.

The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians says of Monteux that he " was never an ostentatious conductor ... prepared his orchestra in often arduous rehearsals and then small but decisive gestures to obtain playing of fine texture, careful detail and powerful rhythmic energy, retaining to the last his extraordinary grasp of musical structure and a faultless ear for sound quality.

"... but view that the entire corpus the Magnus Liber Organi should be transcribed according to the rhythmic modes is no longer accepted " ( Peter Jeffery in the Notation Course Medieval Music 1100-1450 ( music205 ), Princeton ).

Meanwhile, Rouse absorbed African rhythmic techniques from A. M. Jones's Studies in African Music, and studied Schillinger technique with Jerome Walman, one of the few " Certified " Schillinger Teachers in America ; both influences came to inform his music.

Justin London states in his article on rhythm in the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians that " In discussions of rhythmic notation, practice or style, few terms are as confusing or used as confusedly as ‘ additive ’ and ‘ divisive ’.

* Clave ( rhythm ), a rhythmic pattern found in some Afro-Cuban Music

* Music Visualizations: Inspired by Isadora Duncan's approach to music, St. Denis developed the music visualization, which she defined as "... the scientific translation into bodily action of the rhythmic, melodic and harmonious structure of a musical composition without intention to in any way ' interpret ' or reveal any hidden meaning apprehended by the dancer " ( Sherman, Enduring Influence 47 ).

Together, Shawn and Ruth St. Denis established the principle of Music Visualization in modern dance —- a concept that called for movement equivalents to the timbres, dynamics, and structural shapes of music in addition to its rhythmic base.

The term Music and movement often especially denotes the use of rhythmic song and dance in education, thought of as beneficial for childhood development.

Music lovers all over India were swinging to the rhythmic beat of Dama dum mast qalander.

Between 2007 and 2008, a decade after the pioneering artists first established neurofunk's technical soundscape, the style was enhanced with a series of diverse, forward thinking debut albums set to redefine its concept production with the rough-cut antics of Break The System by Gridlok ( Project 51 / CD / 2007 ); the minimal techno-funk fueled Psycho by Phace ( Subtitles Music / 2007 ); the blending of rhythmic guitar chord progressions on Black Lotus by Mindscape ( Citrus Recordings / 2007 ); the melodic experiments of My Light Year by Telemetrik ( BSE Recordings / 2008 ), the highly conceptual and intensive Nobody's Out There by The Upbeats ( Bad Taste Recordings / 2007 ), and the innovative Black Box singles compilation ( Syndrome Audio Recordings / CD / 2008 ), featuring various artists and highlighting remixes by second and third-wave producers, among the second-wave, Phace and Misanthrop contrasting the rhythmic grit of third-wave producers Chook, Dose & Menace.

Music scholars criticized much of this research for focusing too much on low-level issues of sensation and perception, often using impoverished stimuli ( e. g., small rhythmic fragments ) or music restricted to the Western classical repertoire, as well as a general unawareness of the role of music in its wider social and cultural context.

Also, CKFM adopted the slogan " Toronto's New # 1 Hit Music Station ", to more likely compete with CKIS-FM and CIDC-FM, which support the mainstream top 40 format, as well as CFXJ-FM, which airs the rhythmic top 40 format.

Usually amplified, muscular and powerfully rhythmic, his music has been extensively choreographed: Dance Works commissioned and premièred by London Contemporary Dance Theatre has received many new productions around the world, and Remix was awarded the SACD Prize for Video Dance Choreography Music after being choreographed for BBC TV by Aletta Collins.

Formerly a ranking based on airplay at six dance-formatted reporters ( four terrestrial radio stations, plus SiriusXM's BPM channel and Music Choice's Dance / Electronica channel ) the plays-based list expands to include mixshow plays on mainstream top 40 and select rhythmic stations that have submitted their hours of mixshow programming, as monitored by Nielsen BDS, to Billboard.

During their most recent rebranding on December 26, 2010 to " Lite 95-9 ", the station dropped the " Today's Lite Rock " slogan and adopted the " Today's Best Music " slogan and more rhythmic contemporary tracks were added.

It became the most added song on rhythmic radio, thus peaking at number thirty-nine on the Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 chart, while peaking at number seventy-five on the Billboard Pop 100 Airplay chart and number twenty on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play.

Demonstrating the primitive African rhythmic backgrounds of the Blues was Michael Babatunde Olatunji, who plays such native drums as the konga and even does a resounding job slapping his own chest.

The African musical focus on rhythmic singing and dancing was brought to the New World, where it became part of a distinct folk culture that helped Africans " retain continuity with their past through music ".

He was more impressed, however, by the pulsating, rhythmic music he heard at a local Pentecostal Church, as well as an interest in the guitar.

Joseph Jordania recently suggested, that dance, together with rhythmic music and body painting, was designed by the forces of natural selection at the early stage of hominid evolution as a potent tool to put groups of human ancestors in a battle trance, a specific altered state of consciousness.

The original scores, which dated from 1804 when the composer was twelve, were found in the Library of Congress in Washington D. C. Often transcribed for string orchestra, these sonatas reveal the young composer's affinity for Haydn and Mozart, already showing signs of operatic tendencies, punctuated by frequent rhythmic changes and dominated by clear, songlike melodies.

He was noted for his ability as a bandleader and songwriter to blend the simplicity and drive of R & B with the rhythmic complexity and precision of jazz.

Although some of his pieces sound similar to those written by minimalist composers, Adams actually rejects the idea of mechanistic procedure-based or process music ; what Adams took away from minimalism was tonality and / or modality, and the rhythmic energy from repetition.

According to Robert Walser, " Led Zeppelin's sound was marked by speed and power, unusual rhythmic patterns, contrasting terraced dynamics, singer Robert Plant's wailing vocals, and guitarist Jimmy Page's heavily distorted crunch ".

One of the most influential American post-punk bands was Boston's Mission of Burma, who brought abrupt rhythmic shifts derived from hardcore into a highly experimental musical context.

" This was the first mentioning of the term synchronized swimming, although Curtis still used the term rhythmic swimming in her book, Rhythmic Swimming: A Source Book of Synchronized Swimming and Water Pageantry ( Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Co., 1936 ).

At the end of the 1920s, the carnival samba of blocks of the districts Estácio de Sá and Osvaldo Cruz was born, and in the hills of Mangueira, Salgueiro, and São Carlos, there were innovations in rhythmic samba that persist until the present day.

It was a slow and rhythmic samba music and had an emphasis on melody and generally easy acceptance.

The bossa nova emerged at the end of that decade, with an original rhythmic accent which divided the phrasing of the samba and added influences of impressionist music and jazz and a different style of singing which was both intimate and gentle.

The Rite of Spring transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design.

Film critic Paul Rotha said that it " definitely established the film as an independent medium of expression ... Everything that had to be said ... was said entirely through the camera ... The Last Laugh was cine-fiction in its purest form ; exemplary of the rhythmic composition proper to the film.

In 1930 – 32, the spectacularly innovative and hard to use Rhythmicon was realized by Leon Theremin at the request of Henry Cowell, who wanted an instrument with which to play compositions whose multiple rhythmic patterns, based on the overtone series, were far too hard to perform on existing keyboard instruments.

The next person to work out out a comprehensively coherent analysis of the various neumes and their rhythmic durations was Dr Jan Vollaerts.

Brown's music —" extensive vamps " in which his voice was " a percussive instrument with frequent rhythmic grunts ", and " with rhythm-section patterns ... West African polyrhythms "— was a keynote of hip hop's early days.

Bach uses a loose inversion motif between the first half and the second half of this variation, " recycling " rhythmic and melodic material, passing material that was in the right hand to the left hand, and loosely ( selectively ) inverting it.

* Carmen rhythmicum, rhythmic poem which describes a travel through western England and the way a wooden church was affected by a storm.

" Recast as a heavy Rhythm and Blues recording based on a rhythmic groove inspired by Al Green, Raitt's version of " Runaway " was disparaged by many critics.

Much later, Ming dynasty ( 1300s-1600 ) scholar Chu Tsai Yu recognized 3 groups: those instruments using muscle power or used for musical accompaniment, those that are blown, and those that are rhythmic, a scheme which was probably the 1st of scholarly type, the other earlier ones being traditional, folk taxonomies.

It was used by St. Augustine ( 4th and 5th centuries ), in his De Ordine, applying the terms rhythmic ( percussion and strings ), organic ( winds ), and adding harmonic ( the human voice ); Isodore of Seville ( 6th to 7th centuries AD ); Hugh of St. Victor ( 12th century ), also adding the voice ; Magister Lambertus ( 13th century ), adding the human voice as well ; and Michael Pretorius ( 17th century )( Kartomi, 1990, pp. 119 – 21, 147 ).