A rudimentary instinct none the less remains, which not only involves a faculty of heightened and rhythmic motion, but also assures a direct appreciation of such motion when seen in others.
So breath and nutrition, feeling and thought, come in pulsations; they have only a periodic and rhythmicsort of actuality.
The eye too has a field in which clear distinctions and relations appear, and for that reason is an organ favourable to intelligence; but what gives music its superior emotional power is its rhythmic advance.
If rhythm is to give us a "regular recurrence" of various features of a design, it will be possible to choose a combination of pieces of paper which will show a rhythmic arrangement, Fig.
Shape rhythm is the regular recurrence of similar shapes in a design or a rhythmic increase or decrease in the size of shapes used in a design.
Lambs are bleating, steers are lowing, Brisk and rhythmic clacks the mill.
I heard a maid with her guitar Who played, like Orpheus, to the wind, And sent forth rhythmic notes afar From out an arbor vine-entwined.
There was a patter of running feet, a thud of hoofs on the soft soil, and, breaking through these sounds, a rhythmic staccato drumming.
A low rhythmic drumming that suggested the beat of hoofs rose from the waste, but it was lost as the branches rattled and the long grass swayed noisily before a rush of breeze.
The wagon was scarcely discernible, but a rhythmic beat of hoofs still came back through the stillness.
He ingeniously smooths out the unequal rhythmic differences of the two hands, and justly says the piece does not work out any special technical matter.
And further, Ellis: "All art is the rising and falling of the slopes of a rhythmic curve between these two classic and decadent extremes.
Chopin's music needs a rhythmic sense that to us, fed upon the few simple forms of the West, seems almost abnormal.
Meanwhile out of these little metamorphoses there is developed a rich rhythmic life, which the performer must bring out with great precision.
In different degrees of tempo, strength and rhythmic accent it should be practised, omitting the thumb and first finger.
It is sprightly, Polish in feeling and rhythmic life, and a glance at any of its pages gives us the familiar Chopin impression--florid passage work, chords in extensions and chromatic progressions.
The harmonization is rich, therhythmic life vital.
With a less strong rhythmic impulse and formal sense Chopin's music would have degenerated into mere overperfumed impressionism.
Kullak writes: "Harmonic anticipations; a rich rhythmic life originating in the changing articulation of the twelve-eights in groups of three and two each.
F minor, with its rhythmic pronouncement at the start, brings us back to earth.
Yet I know not any charm That can make the fleeting time Of thy sylvan, faint alarm Suit itself to human rhyme: And my yearning rhythmic word Does thee grievous wrong, blithe bird.
Among the stars your feet are set; Your little feet are dancing yet Their rhythmic beat, as when on earth.
Unquestionably, however, the elder poet showed a consummate and continuous mastery of his art altogether beyond the intermittent expressional power of Browning in his most rhythmic emotion at any time of his life.
De profundis, indeed, must the poet come: there must the deep rhythm of life have electrified his "volatile essence" to a living rhythmic joy.
Metric music may be alien to the adequate expression of the latter, whereas rhythmic emotion can have no other appropriate issue.
In the instance of a poet, this vehicle is language emotioned to the white-heat of rhythmic music by impassioned thought or sensation.
But its chief fault seems to me to be its lack of that transmutive glow of rhythmic emotion without which no poem can endure.
This rhythmic energy is, inherently, a distinct thing from intellectual emotion.
Of course, in a sense, all creative art is rhythmic in kind: but here I am speaking only of that creative energy which evolves the germinal idea through the medium of language.
They were skirting the low shore of the Lido, fragrant with the breath of new-mown hay, vocal with the chirp of crickets and the dull, rhythmic thud of the waves upon the beach.
Pauline, sitting beside her uncle among the cushions of state, was so absorbed in the mere joy of this gliding, rhythmic motion, that she scarcely paid due deference to the wonders of the Piazzetta, past which they fared so swiftly.
He noted the rhythmic heave of her bosom and the full pulsation at the throat.
His voice was therhythmic monotone used to lull a patient into a hypnotic trance.
Beyond the Gulf, Vesuvius breathed its glowing rhythmic breath, and the waters glittered.
He heard the rhythmic squeak of the halliards through the sheaves, and the scrape of the gaff going up.
Their rhythmic and leisurely trot jangled a loud but not unmusical bell which hung from some hidden part of the wagon's anatomy, and warned all dwellers on Rural Route No.
Some of them stood warming themselves around the machinery, and the chimney spat forth with a slow, rhythmic rattle its plume of black smoke.
He that obtaineth a view of his soul, the soul that resideth in every body, by help of one or half of a rhythmic line (of the Vedas), hath no more need for anything.
They are for the most partrhythmic compositions, believed to be of great efficacy.
As little do we admit the likelihood of such a rhythmic accentuation of these syllables when they occur in the middle of the line, generally of such lines as belong to the normal types mentioned above.
This is evident from many deviations in the rhythmic accentuation of such words from the modern accentuation which we here regard as normal, though it is to be noted that in the beginning of the Modern English epoch, i.
The rhythmic accentuation is omitted, as being very uncertain in this passage.
In both cases the rhythmic accent has to yield to the word-accent.
The main rhythmic character of the verse is again indicated here by the frequent occurrence of the types A and A1.
The Rhythmic arts, on the other hand, are, in their very essence, connected with temporal succession.
But in such prose the rhythmic order must be so loosely constructed that it does not at once obtrude itself on the ear, or recur regularly as it does in poetry.
In almost every life that is strongly individualized those who look back after it has passed from visible sight cannot but recognize how rhythmic are the sequences that have characterized its last months on earth.
Figure 214 shows the more rhythmic flow of a carved and modeled enrichment.
By thisrhythmic decrease in the measure of the height, the eye is led through an orderly gradation through lesser areas to the top, thus giving a pleasing sensation of lightness and variety to the structure.
The new and more flexible school of speech and music in hymn and tune had perfected rhythmic beauty and brought in the winsome assonance of rhyme.
It is stately, and in character and effect a rhythmic sermon from a text in "natural theology.
In the English version the easy flow of the two last lines into one sentence is an example of rhythmicadvantage over the foreign syntax.
A serio-comic debate added more words, and in the midst of the banter, a musical fellow strung a rhythmic sentence and trolled it to the Methodist tune.
The solitaire of its sphere and time in the novelty of its rhythmic triplets, it stood a wonder to the church and hierarchy accustomed to the slow spondees of the ancient chant.
My dear lady, the rhythmicswish of your skirt betrays you.
It is from thee I learnt the beautiful style that has done me so much honour," with its reiteration of the rhythmic syllables of "honour," opens up a salutary field of aesthetic contemplation.
It is the rhythmic expression of the power that creates the world.
I would not tire The listening ears that wait for fresher strains In phrase new-moulded, new-forged rhythmic chains, With plaintive measures from a worn-out lyre.
Say, shall the Muse with faltering steps retreat, Or dare these names in rhythmic form repeat?
Nature so Holds their soft hands, and will not let them go, Till at the last they track with even feet Her rhythmic footsteps, and their pulses beat Twinned with her pulses, and their lips repeat.
The beautiful, rhythmic lines of the drapery should be particularly noted.
This ancient collection of rhythmic chronicles, composed by various unknown hands, is devoted chiefly to events occurring before the sixteenth century; and most of the chronicles contained in it were written before that time.
This consists of some extracts made by Peder Svart from a rhythmic Latin chronicle of an unknown author.
