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Definition of Drumbeats
1. drumbeat [n] - See also: drumbeat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drumbeats
Literary usage of Drumbeats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"Thus, sudden sounds like drumbeats or emphasized notes would stimulate the ...
Likewise a series of drumbeats or the emphasized tones in martial or dance ..."
2. Northern Ute Music by Frances Densmore (1922)
"By noting the relation of the drumbeats to the notes of the score and by observing
the variations in the width (loudness or rhythm) of the photographic ..."
3. The Persistent Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Mary Whiton Calkins (1912)
"When we more directly experience succession, — as for instance when we listen ...
to a rhythmic series of drumbeats, — we not only observe that any ..."
4. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1920)
"... measuring speeds of cylinder revolutions, metronome indications, and in the
placing of drumbeats, and who is so interested in the question of rhythms, ..."
5. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"From that day the flag flew regularly over the rocky shelf, and, in time, bugles
and morning drumbeats were ..."
6. The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft, William Archibald Dunning (1907)
"... shot rewarded the drummer with a glass of wine, and it must be confessed that
with every glass the good man's face grew redder and his drumbeats wilder. ..."
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