Certainly they are shorter and more syllabic, but when note values are quartered they look just as elaborate rhythmically.
For rhythmically complicated tracks, a dancer must be able to step on the eighth-note, or sometimes even sixteenth-note.
Ichnofossils and ichnofabrics in rhythmically bedded pelagic/hemi-pelagic carbonates: recognition and evaluation of benthic redox and scour cycles.
The aim is to produce something which is rhythmically monotonous and repetitive; a 'sustaining' background of brisk, cheerful but unobtrusive music.
Again, flaser-bedded siltstones and finegrained sandstones alternate rhythmically.
With step-time, there is no need to perform rhythmically.
Cross-metric accents (through oddnumbered groupings of notes, in this case, five triplets), can lend interest to this more rhythmically homogeneous style.
The set of 16 canons are rhythmically more complex and intended to be a development of the first set.