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isorhythms

isorhythms is the plural of isorhythm.

Meaning of isorhythm

Noun

isorhythm (countable and uncountable, plural isorhythms)

  1. A technique that arranges a fixed pattern of pitches with a repeating rhythmic pattern, used in some medieval motets and in more recent works.
    • In his motets Machaut strove for all-over patterns of rhythmic unity through isorhythms, a system codifying a few set patterns of time value, the number of repetitions of a pattern within a composition depending upon the desired length […]1953, Herbert Weinstock, Music as an art, page 31

Questions about isorhythms

What is isorhythms the plural of?
Isorhythms is the plural of isorhythm.

Words near isorhythms in the dictionary

  1. isorhynchophylline
  2. isorhythm
  3. isorhythmic
  4. isorhythmically
  5. isorhythmicity
  6. isorhythms
  7. isoriccardin
  8. isoriccardins
  9. isorithm
  10. isorithmic
  11. isorithms

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