The music provides four phrases, of which the first two are rhythmically parallel, each setting one line of text.
This also might include a brief analysis of a transcribed solo, pointing out how the innovator approached the tune rhythmically or harmonically.
The spinning of the fire poi can be entirely sporadic, or rhythmically precise.
A primary fount of the new style, vocally and rhythmically, was the music of the sanctified churches.
Nevertheless, these repeated fragments remain isolated from one another, both rhythmically and registrally, impeding any sense of linear continuity.
It moves rhythmically from one large musical moment to the next one, usually reinforcing the phrasing of the text.
The arias offer perhaps the most varied music, melodically and rhythmically, with many wide leaps, and diminished and augmented intervals.
The set of 16 canons are rhythmically more complex and intended to be a development of the first set.