However, they also develop a device known as a thumper with the express purpose of generating a rhythmic vibration to attract a sandworm ( see worm charming ).

Similarly, the brass orchestra hits in " Owner of a Lonely Heart " are used as a rhythmic device, rather than an effect to evoke a specific environment ( in a similar way to samples in Yes's earlier recordings ).

Stop-time is, according to Samuel A. Floyd Jr., " a musical device in which the forward flow of the music stops, or seems to stop, suspended in a rhythmic unison, while in some cases an improvising instrumentalist or singer continues solo with the forward flow of the meter and tempo.

A light organ is an electronic device which automatically converts an audio signal ( such as music ) into rhythmic light effects.

This book describes various rhythmic and cerebral phenomena which were unknown before and that became possible to observe thanks to the Cerebroscope, a device for which the Lefebure was awarded the Silver Medal at the Lépine contest of inventors in 1964.

* Light organ-an electronic device which automatically converts an audio signal into rhythmic light effects, which was popular in 1970s discotheques.

His sense for rhythmic variety and timing is impeccable.

And there is less rhythmic difference between progressive jazz, no matter how progressive, and Dixieland, than there is between two movements of many conventional symphonies.

It is true of the rhythmic pattern in which the beat shifts continuously, or at least is continuously sprung, so that it becomes ambiguous enough to allow the pattern to be dominated by the long pulsations of the phrase or strophe.

The resultant sign, audible via stethoscope, is a rhythmic, whooshing sound caused by excessively rapid blood flow through the arteries and veins.

Mensuration is a particular problem in the Cantigas, and most attempts at determining meaningful rhythmic schemes have tended, with some exceptions, to be unsatisfactory.

This rhythmic variation is identical to double-shag except that it has four quick steps rather than two.

Dance is a type of art that generally involves movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, performed in many different cultures and used as a form of expression, social interaction and exercise or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.

According to Jordania, this trance-inducing ability of dance comes from human evolutionary past and includes as well a phenomenon of military drill which is also based on shared rhythmic and monotonous group activity.

Dactylic hexameter ( also known as " heroic hexameter ") is a form of meter in poetry or a rhythmic scheme.

Such an arrangement is a balance between an exaggerated emphasis on the metre — which would cause the verse to be sing-songy — and the need to provide some repeated rhythmic guide for skilled recitation.

This line is made up of five dactyls and a closing spondee, an unusual rhythmic arrangement that imitates the described action.

Because an unamplified upright bass is generally the quietest instrument in a jazz band, many players of the 1920s and 1930s used the slap style, slapping and pulling the strings so that they make a rhythmic " slap " sound against the fingerboard.

Essential tremor generally presents as a rhythmic tremor ( 4 – 12 Hz ) that is present only when the affected muscle is exerting effort ( in other words, it is not present at rest ).

Olivocerebellar neurons exhibit rhythmic excitatory action when harmaline is applied locally.

A particular rhythmic pattern, or a characteristic instrument, is enough to give a traditional feel to music, even when it has been composed recently.

Schmidt is generally, if erroneously, regarded as a conservative composer ( such labels rest upon yet-to-be-resolved aesthetic / stylistic arguments ), but the rhythmic subtlety and harmonic complexity of much of his music belie this.

Only women compete in rhythmic gymnastics although there is a new version of this discipline for men being pioneered in Japan ( see Men's rhythmic gymnastics ).

A fundamental rhythmic figure heard in Gottschalk's compositions such as " Souvenirs From Havana " ( 1859 ), many different slave musics of the Caribbean, as well as the bamboula, and other Afro-Caribbean folk dances performed in New Orleans Congo Square, is the three-stroke pattern known in Cuban music as tresillo.

Tresillo is the most basic and by far, the most prevalent duple-pulse rhythmic cell in sub-Saharan African music traditions, and the music of the African Diaspora.

His system, intended to be compatible with typography, is based on a single line, displaying numbers representing intervals between notes and dots and commas indicating rhythmic values.

Noted for his original, rhythmic and ingenious use of words and imagery, Thomas ' position as one of the great modern poets has been much discussed, though this has not tarnished his popularity amongst the general public, who found his work accessible.

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.

Insoluble fiber, found in whole wheat flour, nuts and vegetables, especially stimulates peristalsis – the rhythmic muscular contractions of the intestines which move digesta along the digestive tract.

Some poets are closely associated with the vocal delivery style found in hip-hop music and draw heavily on the tradition of dub poetry, a rhythmic and politicized genre belonging to black and particularly West Indian culture.

The heart is a myogenic muscular organ found in all animals with a circulatory system ( including all vertebrates ), which pumps blood throughout the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions.

Its distinctive rhythmic profile and function thus led to the French overture style as found in the works of late Baroque composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach.

Taking a suggestion from Henry Cowell's book New Musical Resources, which he bought in New York in 1939, Nancarrow found the answer in the player piano, with its ability to produce extremely complex rhythmic patterns at a speed far beyond the abilities of humans.

As well as discovering new techniques, Messiaen found and absorbed exotic music, including Ancient Greek rhythms, Hindu rhythms ( he encountered Śārṅgadeva's list of 120 rhythmic units, the deçî-tâlas ), Balinese and Javanese Gamelan, birdsong and Japanese music ( see Example 1 for an instance of his use of ancient Greek and Hindu rhythms ).

Instruments, such as the Saraswati veena and / or venu flute, can be occasionally found as a rhythmic accompaniment, but usually, a vocalist is supported by a violin player ( who sits on his / her left ).

Kuaiban bears some resemblance to rap and other forms of rhythmic music found in other cultures.

Ulvaeus would also provide dummy lyrics to emphasize the rhythmic patterns of the music, and since Rice found a number of these " embarrassingly good " as they were, incorporated a few in the final version.

In fact, though the Maguindanao, Maranao and Tausug artists technically have no concept of scale ( because emphasis placed on the concept of “ rhythmic modes ”), the Pelog and Slendro scales of Java were found to be most satisfactory to their own varying pentatonic / heptatonic scales.

An example of this could be found among the Maguindanao where the word binalig is used by contemporary musicians as a name for one of the rhythmic modes associated with kangungudan but it has also been used as a term designating a “ new ” style.

In jazz, he found " the rhythmic drive, the risk, the absolute contrast to the pale, academic approach I had been taught.

The cross-rhythmic ratio three-over-two ( 3: 2 ) or vertical hemiola, is the most significant rhythmic cell found in sub-Saharan rhythms.

As in organa tripla, handling three voices ( or four ) precludes the kind of rhythmic freedom found in dupla.

The ska sound and rhythms were undergoing a change by the late 1960s, musicians were slowing the beat and introducing more subtle rhythmic pulses that audiences found less frantic and therefore easier to dance too.

They are often used to play a repeating rhythmic figure throughout a piece, known as clave, a key pattern ( or guide-pattern, timeline patter, phrasing referent, bell pattern ) that is also found in African music and Brazilian music.

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

Her music, however, shows a good deal more rhythmic complexity than is generally found in these genres, hence her music can properly be considered and described as postminimalist.

SIRI ( 1997 ), a frequently performed tour-de-force for solo percussion with electronics, uses a rhythmic and structural language found in the highly-ritualised percussion music of Japan and Korea.

' Tāla, Taal or Tal ( Sanskrit tālà, literally a " clap ", also transliterated as " tala ") is the term used in Indian classical music for the rhythmic pattern of any composition and for the entire subject of rhythm, roughly corresponding to metre in Western music, though closer conceptual equivalents are to be found in the older system of rhythmic mode and its relations with the " foot " of classical poetry, or with other Asian classical systems such as the notion of usul in the theory of Ottoman / Turkish music.

Developments in notation allowed notes to be written with greater independence of rhythm, shunning the limitations of the rhythmic modes which prevailed in the thirteenth century ; secular music acquired much of the polyphonic sophistication previously found only in sacred music ; and new techniques and forms, such as isorhythm and the isorhythmic motet, became prevalent.

Beefheart sat at the piano until he found a rhythmic or melodic pattern that he liked.