Rhythm (Greek language ''ρυθμός'' = tempo) is the variation of the duration of sounds or other events over time. When governed by rule, it is called meter (music). It is inherent in any time-dependent medium, but it is most associated with music, dance, and the majority of Meter (poetry). The study of rhythm, stress, and pitch (music) in speech is called prosody; it is a topic in linguistics. All musicians, instrumentalists and vocalists, work with rhythm, but it is often considered the primary domain of drummers and percussionists. In Western music, rhythms are usually arranged with respect to a time signature, partially signifying a meter. The speed of the underlying pulse (music), called the beat (music), is the tempo. The tempo is usually measured in 'beats per minute' (bpm); 60 bpm means a speed of one beat per second. The length of the meter, or metric unit (usually corresponding with measure (music) length), is divided almost exclusively into either two or three beats, being called duple meter and triple meter, respectively. If each beat is further divided by two it is simple meter, if by three compound meter. Some musical genre make different use of rhythm than others. Most Western music is based on divisive rhythm, while non-Western music uses more additive rhythm. African music makes heavy use of polyrhythms, and Indian music uses complex cycles such as 7 and 13, while Gamelan often uses complex interlocking rhythms. By comparison, a lot of Western classical music is fairly rhythmically simple; it stays in a simple meter such as 4/4 or 3/4 and makes little use of syncopation. In the 20th century, composers like Igor Stravinsky, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich wrote more rhythmically complex music using odd meters, and techniques such as phasing and additive rhythm. At the same time, modernists such as Olivier Messiaen and his pupils used increased complexity to disrupt the sense of a regular beat, leading eventually to the widespread use of irrational rhythms in New Complexity. LaMonte Young also wrote music in which the sense of a regular beat is absent because the music consists only of long sustained tones (drone (music)). Clave (rhythm) is a common underlying rhythm in African music, Cuban music music, and Brazilian music. A rhythm section generally consists of percussion instruments, and possibly chordal instruments (e.g., guitar, banjo) and keyboard instruments, such as piano (which, by the way, may be classified in any of these three types of instruments). "Rhythm," wrote Tom Robbins in ''Another Roadside Attraction'', "is everything pertaining to the duration of energy." Narmour (1980, p.147-53) describes three categories of prosodic rules which create rhythmic successions which are additive (same duration repeated), cumulative (short-long), or countercumulative (long-short). Cumulation is associated with closure or relaxation, countercumulation with openness or tension, while additive rhythms are open-ended and repetitive. Richard Middleton points out this method cannot account for syncopation and suggests the concept of transformation. A rhythmic unit is a durational pattern which occupies a period of time equivalent to a pulse (music) or pulses on an underlying metric level, as opposed to a rhythmic gesture which does not (DeLone et. al. (Eds.), 1975, chap. 3). ==Source== *DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). ''Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music''. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465. *Middleton, Richard (1990/2002). ''Studying Popular Music''. Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 0335152759. **Narmour (1980). == See also == *Riddim *Time scale *Musical notation * drum beat ==External links== * [http://www.hum.uva.nl/mmm/ Research group specializing in rhythm, timing and tempo, University of Amsterdam] Rhythm
Ok, this is pitiful. Rhythm is a huge aspect of music and we should have a decent page on it. I'm willing to do the initial writing (not promising any brilliance), but please help generate ideas. What needs to be on this page? I have music specifically in mind here, but other uses should be addressed as well. Of course, if you want to add the material, go for it ;) -- User:Merphant :I've started an expansion, but it's still weak. -- User:Merphant ==Topics that still need to be addressed: == * basic role in music * on beat/down beat up beat/off beat, maybe seperate articles? * common rhythms: rock beat, surf beat, clave, etc. * mention contemporary electronic music with its driving rhythm ** ''Please don't lump all electronic music in with dance music. In some cases it has no percussion at all. If you are going to talk about driving rhythm then please stick to the relevant genres.'' User:Sugarfish 03:03, 16 Sep 2003 (UTC) * more stuff that I can't think of right now ----- The first sentence, "Rhythm is the measure of a movement by regular recurring accents." means nothing definite to me. I look at it and say, "How could I measure a movement? Is that like measuring the jump of a frog? And how are 'accents' used to do this measuring? Is an accent like an Italian accent or a German accent?" Somehow I don't think that the original writer meant anything like this, but that is just a guess. I could try to guess what the reader was trying to say and edit the sentence on the basis of my guess, but there is just too much "slop" in the passage to make that a sensible strategy. User:Patrick0Moran 02:23, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC) ----- Things like the down beat and, it seems, specific rhythms like clave, really belong in metre and not the more general rhythm, since, for instance, clave is always in cut time (2/2), which is a specific meter.User:Hyacinth ---- Patrick, I changed the first sentence to "Rhythm is the measure of movement in time by regular recurring accents." I realize that doesn't really clear anything up if don't already know what rhythm is. To attempt to explain: accents mark off points in time, the length of which is measure by the distance to the next accent of similar strength. The existance and strength of an accent is determined by its volume, attack, and other factors. This is opposed to the two following situations: where there is a stream of randomly accented randomly spaced sounds, and when there is a steady stream of regularly spaced sounds of the exact same accent. Even in these situations one tends to arbitrarily group the sounds and construct a more regular or differentiated rhythm. If someone (you?) wants to add this to the main article I'd appreciate it.User:Hyacinth == Macedonian, Bulgarian and other Balcanian Rhythms == Can anyone give any information about Macedonian, Bulgarian and other Balcanian Rhythms. They have very unusual rhythms as 7/8 (3 - 2 - 2) and 9/8 (3 - 2 - 2 - 2). ==Everything I know about "Rhythm"== In the most basic rock rhythm used in almost all popular music since the 50's: *The bass drum plays on the "onbeat", 1 and 3 *The snare drum plays on the "offbeat", 2 and 4 This is the simplest and a basic rhythmic interest and tension used in virtually all contemporary popular music: "boom-chick", and many variations exist, often formed from adding or leaving out, replacing with rests, beats. A variant of this is the familiar "boom-chick boom-boom-chick" of someone beatboxing. Meanwhile: *The cymbal plays the "ride", eighth notes, 1&2&3&4& *The bass will play supportively rhythmically and harmonically, often playing the root and fifths of chords strongly on the onbeats. *The rhythm guitar will play supportively harmonically and rhythmically, while adding some degree of rhythmic interest. Often an additive 12312312, or divisive/metrical 1&2-&3&-4&, rhythm. *The lead vocalist and lead guitar will provide more melodic and rhythmic interest, with the lead guitar often supporting the vocals. The drummer, in addition to playing variations of the main beats may augment them with fills and otherwise add rhythmic interest. When creating variations on the main beats through subtraction or addition of notes the role of a beat in supplying amibguity and resolution relative to other beats may be taken into account. For instance, removing the important first beat drastically alters the feel of the rhythm, and is common in some reggae music. In bossa nova, there is no offbeat, and syncopation is used in many other ways. In the most basic bossa nova rhythm: *The bass drum still plays 1 and 3. *The clave plays the clave son rhythm, 1&2-&3&-4& 1&-2&-3&-4&. This was featured recently in a Nike commercial, in which the tired and slow cross country team being led by cheerleaders chanting, "Nobody runs like [Tommy] runs, Oh Yah!" ==examples & clave separation== hi. i think that this article needs to display examples of different types of clave written in western musical notation. this would make the article much more interesting in that different clave patterns can be compared cross-culturally. no? and i think that if undertaken this would be a significant enough expansion to warrant a separate article. peace — User:Ish_ishwar User_talk:Ish_ishwar 16:19, 2005 May 15 (UTC) == Rythm the most important element in music == Would it be correct to say that Rhytm is the most important element in music and why? Florence == I wrote a small essay about rhythm == How wonderful it is to listen to an orchestra play, as you unleash yourself to the harmony, melody, and different timbres that characterize each instrument! However try taking out the maestro from the stage, can you imagine the chaos that will happen? Who will tell the guitarist when to stop and the vocalist when to start? Thus I believe that without doubt each element plays a very important role in creating a successful musical experience, yet rhythm is one of the most important elements of music since it is the time element. Almost everything in our lives follows a certain rhythm, a time cycle. The sun has a time to rise and a time to set. Even the globe rotates on a certain pace. What would happen if there was no pattern for these things? What if the sun would just set in the middle of the day or the globe would just start spinning very fast? We would be lost, confused, puzzled to all these changes. It is like the orchestra without a maestro. The same applies for music, rhythm is essential to organize the time in music. When listening to music I feel the need to nod my head or pat my foot along with the beat. This is due to the organization of rhythm, which marks the character and expression of music. In contrast the time element, rhythm, may be free. Such as the central Javanese gamelan music, but then again this free rhythm only last for the first 11 seconds, before which rhythm takes its place. The Javanese syakuhati is also an example of free rhythm, where the musician is free to improvise; hence melody plays a more important role in this case. Therefore even if the rhythm is free like in the syakuhati, there is still a time element that drives the musician to stop blowing or to prolong the blow. The strong existence of this element cannot be ignored. Finally, every element has its own flavor to add to the richness of a certain musical composition. However, although some type of music can have a free rhythm, rhythm does exist in most types of music and plays the role of the maestro in an orchestra! Florence
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Rhythm (Greek language ''ρυθμός'' = tempo) is the variation of the duration of sounds or other events over time. When governed by rule, it is called meter (music). It is inherent in any time-dependent medium, but it is most associated with music, dance, and the majority of Meter (poetry). The study of rhythm, stress, and pitch (music) in speech is called prosody; it is a topic in linguistics. All musicians, instrumentalists and vocalists, work with rhythm, but it is often considered the primary domain of drummers and percussionists. In Western music, rhythms are usually arranged with respect to a time signature, partially signifying a meter. The speed of the underlying pulse (music), called the beat (music), is the tempo. The tempo is usually measured in 'beats per minute' (bpm); 60 bpm means a speed of one beat per second. The length of the meter, or metric unit (usually corresponding with measure (music) length), is divided almost exclusively into either two or three beats, being called duple meter and triple meter, respectively. If each beat is further divided by two it is simple meter, if by three compound meter. Some musical genre make different use of rhythm than others. Most Western music is based on divisive rhythm, while non-Western music uses more additive rhythm. African music makes heavy use of polyrhythms, and Indian music uses complex cycles such as 7 and 13, while Gamelan often uses complex interlocking rhythms. By comparison, a lot of Western classical music is fairly rhythmically simple; it stays in a simple meter such as 4/4 or 3/4 and makes little use of syncopation. In the 20th century, composers like Igor Stravinsky, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich wrote more rhythmically complex music using odd meters, and techniques such as phasing and additive rhythm. At the same time, modernists such as Olivier Messiaen and his pupils used increased complexity to disrupt the sense of a regular beat, leading eventually to the widespread use of irrational rhythms in New Complexity. LaMonte Young also wrote music in which the sense of a regular beat is absent because the music consists only of long sustained tones (drone (music)). Clave (rhythm) is a common underlying rhythm in African music, Cuban music music, and Brazilian music. A rhythm section generally consists of percussion instruments, and possibly chordal instruments (e.g., guitar, banjo) and keyboard instruments, such as piano (which, by the way, may be classified in any of these three types of instruments). "Rhythm," wrote Tom Robbins in ''Another Roadside Attraction'', "is everything pertaining to the duration of energy." Narmour (1980, p.147-53) describes three categories of prosodic rules which create rhythmic successions which are additive (same duration repeated), cumulative (short-long), or countercumulative (long-short). Cumulation is associated with closure or relaxation, countercumulation with openness or tension, while additive rhythms are open-ended and repetitive. Richard Middleton points out this method cannot account for syncopation and suggests the concept of transformation. A rhythmic unit is a durational pattern which occupies a period of time equivalent to a pulse (music) or pulses on an underlying metric level, as opposed to a rhythmic gesture which does not (DeLone et. al. (Eds.), 1975, chap. 3). ==Source== *DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). ''Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music''. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465. *Middleton, Richard (1990/2002). ''Studying Popular Music''. Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 0335152759. **Narmour (1980). == See also == *Riddim *Time scale *Musical notation * drum beat ==External links== * [http://www.hum.uva.nl/mmm/ Research group specializing in rhythm, timing and tempo, University of Amsterdam] Rhythm
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Ok, this is pitiful. Rhythm is a huge aspect of music and we should have a decent page on it. I'm willing to do the initial writing (not promising any brilliance), but please help generate ideas. What needs to be on this page? I have music specifically in mind here, but other uses should be addressed as well. Of course, if you want to add the material, go for it ;) -- User:Merphant :I've started an expansion, but it's still weak. -- User:Merphant ==Topics that still need to be addressed: == * basic role in music * on beat/down beat up beat/off beat, maybe seperate articles? * common rhythms: rock beat, surf beat, clave, etc. * mention contemporary electronic music with its driving rhythm ** ''Please don't lump all electronic music in with dance music. In some cases it has no percussion at all. If you are going to talk about driving rhythm then please stick to the relevant genres.'' User:Sugarfish 03:03, 16 Sep 2003 (UTC) * more stuff that I can't think of right now ----- The first sentence, "Rhythm is the measure of a movement by regular recurring accents." means nothing definite to me. I look at it and say, "How could I measure a movement? Is that like measuring the jump of a frog? And how are 'accents' used to do this measuring? Is an accent like an Italian accent or a German accent?" Somehow I don't think that the original writer meant anything like this, but that is just a guess. I could try to guess what the reader was trying to say and edit the sentence on the basis of my guess, but there is just too much "slop" in the passage to make that a sensible strategy. User:Patrick0Moran 02:23, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC) ----- Things like the down beat and, it seems, specific rhythms like clave, really belong in metre and not the more general rhythm, since, for instance, clave is always in cut time (2/2), which is a specific meter.User:Hyacinth ---- Patrick, I changed the first sentence to "Rhythm is the measure of movement in time by regular recurring accents." I realize that doesn't really clear anything up if don't already know what rhythm is. To attempt to explain: accents mark off points in time, the length of which is measure by the distance to the next accent of similar strength. The existance and strength of an accent is determined by its volume, attack, and other factors. This is opposed to the two following situations: where there is a stream of randomly accented randomly spaced sounds, and when there is a steady stream of regularly spaced sounds of the exact same accent. Even in these situations one tends to arbitrarily group the sounds and construct a more regular or differentiated rhythm. If someone (you?) wants to add this to the main article I'd appreciate it.User:Hyacinth == Macedonian, Bulgarian and other Balcanian Rhythms == Can anyone give any information about Macedonian, Bulgarian and other Balcanian Rhythms. They have very unusual rhythms as 7/8 (3 - 2 - 2) and 9/8 (3 - 2 - 2 - 2). ==Everything I know about "Rhythm"== In the most basic rock rhythm used in almost all popular music since the 50's: *The bass drum plays on the "onbeat", 1 and 3 *The snare drum plays on the "offbeat", 2 and 4 This is the simplest and a basic rhythmic interest and tension used in virtually all contemporary popular music: "boom-chick", and many variations exist, often formed from adding or leaving out, replacing with rests, beats. A variant of this is the familiar "boom-chick boom-boom-chick" of someone beatboxing. Meanwhile: *The cymbal plays the "ride", eighth notes, 1&2&3&4& *The bass will play supportively rhythmically and harmonically, often playing the root and fifths of chords strongly on the onbeats. *The rhythm guitar will play supportively harmonically and rhythmically, while adding some degree of rhythmic interest. Often an additive 12312312, or divisive/metrical 1&2-&3&-4&, rhythm. *The lead vocalist and lead guitar will provide more melodic and rhythmic interest, with the lead guitar often supporting the vocals. The drummer, in addition to playing variations of the main beats may augment them with fills and otherwise add rhythmic interest. When creating variations on the main beats through subtraction or addition of notes the role of a beat in supplying amibguity and resolution relative to other beats may be taken into account. For instance, removing the important first beat drastically alters the feel of the rhythm, and is common in some reggae music. In bossa nova, there is no offbeat, and syncopation is used in many other ways. In the most basic bossa nova rhythm: *The bass drum still plays 1 and 3. *The clave plays the clave son rhythm, 1&2-&3&-4& 1&-2&-3&-4&. This was featured recently in a Nike commercial, in which the tired and slow cross country team being led by cheerleaders chanting, "Nobody runs like [Tommy] runs, Oh Yah!" ==examples & clave separation== hi. i think that this article needs to display examples of different types of clave written in western musical notation. this would make the article much more interesting in that different clave patterns can be compared cross-culturally. no? and i think that if undertaken this would be a significant enough expansion to warrant a separate article. peace — User:Ish_ishwar User_talk:Ish_ishwar 16:19, 2005 May 15 (UTC) == Rythm the most important element in music == Would it be correct to say that Rhytm is the most important element in music and why? Florence == I wrote a small essay about rhythm == How wonderful it is to listen to an orchestra play, as you unleash yourself to the harmony, melody, and different timbres that characterize each instrument! However try taking out the maestro from the stage, can you imagine the chaos that will happen? Who will tell the guitarist when to stop and the vocalist when to start? Thus I believe that without doubt each element plays a very important role in creating a successful musical experience, yet rhythm is one of the most important elements of music since it is the time element. Almost everything in our lives follows a certain rhythm, a time cycle. The sun has a time to rise and a time to set. Even the globe rotates on a certain pace. What would happen if there was no pattern for these things? What if the sun would just set in the middle of the day or the globe would just start spinning very fast? We would be lost, confused, puzzled to all these changes. It is like the orchestra without a maestro. The same applies for music, rhythm is essential to organize the time in music. When listening to music I feel the need to nod my head or pat my foot along with the beat. This is due to the organization of rhythm, which marks the character and expression of music. In contrast the time element, rhythm, may be free. Such as the central Javanese gamelan music, but then again this free rhythm only last for the first 11 seconds, before which rhythm takes its place. The Javanese syakuhati is also an example of free rhythm, where the musician is free to improvise; hence melody plays a more important role in this case. Therefore even if the rhythm is free like in the syakuhati, there is still a time element that drives the musician to stop blowing or to prolong the blow. The strong existence of this element cannot be ignored. Finally, every element has its own flavor to add to the richness of a certain musical composition. However, although some type of music can have a free rhythm, rhythm does exist in most types of music and plays the role of the maestro in an orchestra! Florence
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