Definition of Rhythmics

1. n. The department of musical science which treats of the length of sounds.

Definition of Rhythmics

1. Noun. The study of rhythm. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rhythmics

1. rhythmic [n] - See also: rhythmic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhythmics

rhythmer
rhythmers
rhythmi
rhythmic
rhythmic chorea
rhythmic gesture
rhythmic gestures
rhythmic gymnastics
rhythmic pattern
rhythmic unit
rhythmic units
rhythmical
rhythmically
rhythmicities
rhythmicity
rhythmics (current term)
rhythming
rhythmist
rhythmists
rhythmite
rhythmites
rhythmization
rhythmizations
rhythmize
rhythmized
rhythmizes
rhythmizing
rhythmless
rhythmlessly
rhythmometer

Literary usage of Rhythmics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"... of Provencal verse found in that tongue;l and Latin the Latin rhythmics are rather more interesting. ..."

2. Music: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and by William Smythe Babcock Mathews (1902)
"rhythmics is the department of theory having to do with rhythm, ie, with the measured flow of the music in time, and this flow is not in the most essential ..."

3. A Criticism of Systems of Hebrew Metre: An Elementary Treatise by William Henry Cobb (1905)
"All such terms have their origin in musical rhythmics. A trochee was originally a ' falling' measure (ie moving from long to short) in § time, ..."

4. Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft by Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft ( (1891)
"... R., rhythmics of the Arabian and Mussulman Nations (cont.1. — Reinach, S., Lydian Origin of the Etruscans. — Darmesteter, J., Epic Legends of Ancient ..."

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