Rhythm

Rhythm, wrote Tom Robbins in 'Another Roadside Attraction', is everything
pertaining to the duration of energy.

Rhythm is the measure of movement in time by regular recurring accents. When
governed by rule, it is called metre. It is a major aspect of music, dance,
and most poetry. The study of rhythm, stress, and pitch in speech is called
prosody; it is a topic in linguistics.

In music, rhythms are usually arranged with respect to the time signature.
The speed of a rhythm is called tempo. Beats which are emphasized by the
time signature are called on beats; others are called off beats. In popular
music, a strong off beat, called the beat or backbeat, usually repeats in
the background, behind the melody (1234).

Some genres of music make different use of rhythm than others. Most western
music is based on divisive rhythm, while non-western music uses more
additive rhythm. African music makes heavy use of polyrhythms, and Indian
music uses complex cycles such as 7 and 13, while Balinese music often uses
complex interlocking rhythms. A lot of western classical music is
rhythmically fairly simple; it stays in a simple meter such as 4/4 or 3/4
and makes little use of syncopation. In the 20th century, composers like
Igor Stravinsky, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich wrote more rhythmically
complex music using techniques such as phasing and additive rhythm. At the
same time, modernists such as Olivier Messiaen and his pupils used increased
complexity to disrupt the sense of a regular beat, leading eventually to the
widespread use of irrational rhythms in New Complexity.

Instrumentalists who deal mainly with rhythm are called drummers or
percussionists.

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