ritmo

nombre masculino

1. 1.

Forma de sucederse y alternar una serie de sonidos que se repiten peridicamente en un

determinado intervalo de tiempo, especialmente la manera en que se suceden y alternan en una
obra artstica los sonidos diferentes en intensidad (fuertes y dbiles) o duracin (largos y breves).

"el ritmo de los tambores; el ritmo de una composicin musical; el ritmo de un poema; al bailar es
muy importante no perder el ritmo"

2. 2.

Forma de sucederse y alternar una serie de cosas (movimientos, palpitaciones, acontecimientos,

etc.) que se repiten peridicamente en un determinado intervalo de tiempo.

"solo con los aos se percibe el ritmo de las estaciones; las mareas se suceden con ritmo;
considero que el ritmo de esta pelcula es demasiado lento; se le aceler el ritmo cardaco"

Rhythm (from Greek , rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry" (Liddell and
Scott 1996)) generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and
weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions" (Anon. 1971, 2537). 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.

In the performance arts, rhythm is the timing of events on a human scale; of musical sounds and
silences that occur over time, of the steps of a dance, or the meter of spoken language and poetry.
In some performing arts, such as hip hop music, the rhythmic delivery of the lyrics is one of the
most important elements of the style. Rhythm may also refer to visual presentation, as "timed
movement through space" (Jirousek 1995,[page needed]) and a common language of pattern
unites rhythm with geometry. In recent years, rhythm and meter have become an important area
of research among music scholars. Recent work in these areas includes books by Maury Yeston
(1976), Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff (Lerdahl and Jackendoff 1983), Jonathan Kramer,
Christopher Hasty (1997), Godfried Toussaint (2005), William Rothstein (1989), and Joel Lester
(Lester 1986).