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Definition of Musical rhythm

1. Noun. The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music. "The conductor set the beat"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Musical Rhythm

Literary usage of Musical rhythm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Architectural harmony analogous to musical rhythm and harmony. There are many indications in the earlier, freer architecture of the Greeks that they ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"musical rhythm cannot be studied on a sound basis unless its radical divergences from ... Ancient musical rhythm shared in the general qualities of that ..."

3. An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1909)
"Sidney Lanier, a musician and poet who tried to show how the laws of musical rhythm apply to English verse, went clear to the other extreme, and declared ..."

4. The Psychology of Musical Talent by Carl Emil Seashore (1919)
"The reader must be patient with our failure to give, in a single section, a full account of musical rhythm. Rhythm, like tone, is present in all aspects of ..."

5. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians by Theodore Baker (1919)
"... Theory of musical rhythm (Cambridge, 1911). musicologist; b. Apr. 10, 1864. Editor of 'The Old English Edition' (25 vols., 1889- 1902; ..."

6. How to Sing a Song: The Art of Dramatic and Lyric Interpretation by Yvette Guilbert (1918)
"musical rhythm is a mechanical quality, which you can finally acquire through a sufficient training of your voice by the aid of a metronome. ..."

7. The Working Principles of Rhetoric Examined in Their Literary Relations and by John Franklin Genung (1900)
"I. Overtones of musical rhythm As soon as we go from blank verse or plain recitative to poetry of a more lyric kind, we become aware, with the greater ..."

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