What is crucial about songs is the rhythmic and segmental characteristics of the vocal message, and this may make it primordial over early linguistic interaction.
My student teachers invented and adapted, culturally appropriate and socially relevant song lyrics, rhythmic chants and accompanying actions to create musical games.
Yet in both cases an emphasis on the immediate rhythmic unit provides a vital foil to the composer's lyrical voice.
There are two ways to produce rhythmic lengthening using nonfinality : non-finality in the syllable and non-finality in the foot.
He combines rhythmic bass patterns and ringing open strings with treble melodic runs that can create the impression of two guitar voices.
Different pulses and rhythmic figures are eventually added to reach a more dissonant climax, where crashing gamelan-type sounds depict the chaos of the title.
This serves as something of a curtain-raiser for an animated section in which the quartet provide dance-like material in rhythmic unison.
Footed tones and tonal feet: rhythmic constituency in a pitchaccent language.
