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rhythm

Also known as musical rhythm, Metre (poetry)

Rhythm (from Greek , rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions". This general meaning of regular recurrence or pattern in time can apply to a wide variety of cyclical natural phenomena having a periodicity or frequency of anything from microseconds to several seconds (as with the riff in a rock music song); to several minutes or hours, or, at the most extreme, even over many years.

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Rhythm is a pattern of regular, recurring movements or conditions that can be found throughout nature and in human activities like music, characterized by the alternation of stronger and weaker elements. It matters because this fundamental pattern of regularity appears across an enormous range of time scales—from the microscopic movements in microseconds to natural cycles spanning years—making it a key organizing principle in both the natural world and in how we create and experience things like music.

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Commons category: Rhythms

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Anthropology
Terminology
Pulse, beat and measure
Unit and gesture
Alternation and repetition
Tempo and duration
Rhythm–tempo interaction
Metric structure
Counter rhythm
In different traditions
African
Indian
Western
Linguistics
References
Sources
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines rhythm as "The measured flow of words or phrases in verse, forming various patterns of sound as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables in a metrical foot or line; an instance of this".