What is "rhythms"

Usage examples of "rhythms".

For example, some genres have complex syncopated rhythms, whereas others have very simple rhythms.

Sidelight: The successful poet must be a diligent student of language -- sensitive to sounds and rhythms -- and a student of technique, through the knowledge of what forms of expression have worked effectively for other poets, past and present, in order to develop, master, and expand his or her art.

I could not pass a bell without ringing it or hold a flask without blowing across its mouth, and when I had nothing else I would beat my hands upon a table or a pot or my knee, bringing to birth the rhythms and songs that crowded and bumped each other about within me.

We must deduce that regular musical rhythms and discontinuous musical melodies are super-stimuli for parts of the brain that are designed to process irregular speech rhythms and continuous speech melodies.

In either case it is not clear why hearing a regular beat under particular circumstances should result in the development of our appreciation of the complex rhythms of music.

It has been established that babies become sensitive to the rhythms of the language spoken around them at quite an early age.

For example, the rhythms of music are much more regular than the corresponding rhythms of speech, but the purpose of neurons that respond strongly to regular rhythm may actually be the perception of irregular rhythms.

In as much as the rhythms of the language being spoken assist in the comprehension of language, it is important that the same rhythms can be recognised at different tempos.

Since the rhythms of speech are not regular like those of music, there will not be a set of fixed active and inactive zones.

This will happen for both regular musical rhythms and irregular speech rhythms.

West African rhythms which originally came to North America in the musical cultures of African slaves.

Following a similar methodology as for pitch translation invariance, play different rhythms at different tempos, and look for cortical maps whose response is time scaling invariant.

The purpose of this map is to respond to the irregular rhythms of speech.

When I consider these two histories, I cannot shake the sense that they developed in rhythms resembling, so to speak, the two halves of a soccer game.

And that immediately suggested a possible synchronization mechanism: In a congregation of flashing fireflies, every one is continually sending and receiving signals, shifting the rhythms of others and being shifted by them in turn.