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A rhythmic pattern or cycle in Arabic music is called a "wazn" (Arabic: وزن; plural أوزان / awzān), literally a "measure". [1]A wazn is only used in musical genres with a fixed rhythmic-temporal organization including recurring measures, motifs, and meter or pulse. [2]
Mizan (Arabic: ميزان, lit. 'balance') is a concept in the Quran, which has been described as "the principle of the middle path" [1] and "the overarching divine principle for organizing our universe". [2] Azizah Y. al-Hibri argues that Mizan, as the "divine scale", could be transformed into Adl in human realm. [2]
In music, the terms additive and divisive are used to distinguish two types of both rhythm and meter: . A divisive (or, alternately, multiplicative) rhythm is a rhythm in which a larger period of time is divided into smaller rhythmic units or, conversely, some integer unit is regularly multiplied into larger, equal units.
Metric modulation was first described by Richard Franko Goldman [2] while reviewing the Cello Sonata of Elliott Carter, who prefers to call it tempo modulation. [3] Another synonymous term is proportional tempi. [4] A technique in which a rhythmic pattern is superposed on another, heterometrically, and then supersedes it and becomes the basic ...
The use of asymmetrical rhythms – sometimes called aksak rhythm (the Turkish word for "limping") – also became more common in the 20th century: such metres include quintuple as well as more complex additive metres along the lines of 2+2+3 time, where each bar has two 2-beat units and a 3-beat unit with a stress at the beginning of each unit.
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Dactylic hexameter (also known as heroic hexameter and the meter of epic) is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme frequently used in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The scheme of the hexameter is usually as follows (writing – for a long syllable, u for a short, and u u for a position that may be a long or two shorts):
Lyric setting is the process in songwriting of placing textual content in the context of musical rhythm, in which the lyrical meter and musical rhythm are in proper alignment as to preserve the natural shape of the language and promote prosody. Prosody is defined as "an appropriate relationship between elements."