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The Rhythmicon—also known as the Polyrhythmophone—was an electro-mechanical musical instrument designed and built by Leon Theremin for composer Henry Cowell, intended to reveal connections between rhythms, pitches and the harmonic series.
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The main percussion instrument is the wooden frame drum called the qilaut. It is made from boiling and bending strips of wood about two to three inches wide into a circular frame with a handle protruding out. Detailed animal skin, usually caribou, is stretched across the frame and fastened down with a string. The drum can reach one meter in ...
Rhythm (e.g. ritmo di # battute meaning a rhythm of # measures) ritornello A recurring passage rolled chord See Arpeggio rondo A musical form in which a certain section returns repeatedly, interspersed with other sections: ABACA is a typical structure or ABACABA roulade (Fr.) A rolling (i.e. a florid vocal phrase) rubato
The design of the instrument depends on the school of playing. There are three distinguishable types: There are three distinguishable types: The conventional sarod is a 17 to 25-stringed lute-like instrument—four to five main strings used for playing the melody, one or two drone strings, two chikari strings and nine to eleven sympathetic strings.
The basic rhythmic phrase of a tala when rendered on a percussive instrument such as tabla is called a theka. [17] The beats within each rhythmic cycle are called matras, and the first beat of any rhythmic cycle is called the sam. [18] An empty beat is called khali. [19] The subdivisions of a tala are called vibhagas or khands. [18]
A bell pattern is a rhythmic pattern of striking a hand-held bell or other instrument of the idiophone family, to make it emit a sound at desired intervals. It is often a key pattern [ 1 ] [ 2 ] (also known as a guide pattern , [ 3 ] phrasing referent , [ 4 ] timeline , [ 5 ] or asymmetrical timeline [ 6 ] ), in most cases it is a metal bell ...
The rhythmic organization is based on rhythmic patterns called tala. The melodic foundations are called ragas. One possible classification of ragas is into "melodic modes" or "parent scales", known as thaats, under which most ragas can be classified based on the notes they use. Thaats may consist of up to seven scale degrees, or swara.