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Understanding Rhythm and Rhyme in Music

Rhythm is the pattern of strong and weak beats in music or language. It includes elements like accent, meter, and tempo that relate to forward motion. Different genres have characteristic rhythmic patterns, like the rumba rhythm. Rhyme is correspondence between terminal sounds in words or lines of poetry. Rhyming verse follows a rhyme scheme where lines rhyme. A lyric is a short poem set to music or a song's words. A chorus repeats at intervals in a song. A composer creates words or music or both, especially for popular songs.

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Understanding Rhythm and Rhyme in Music

Rhythm is the pattern of strong and weak beats in music or language. It includes elements like accent, meter, and tempo that relate to forward motion. Different genres have characteristic rhythmic patterns, like the rumba rhythm. Rhyme is correspondence between terminal sounds in words or lines of poetry. Rhyming verse follows a rhyme scheme where lines rhyme. A lyric is a short poem set to music or a song's words. A chorus repeats at intervals in a song. A composer creates words or music or both, especially for popular songs.

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1 a : an ordered recurrent alternation of strong and weak elements

in the flow of sound and silence in speech b : a particular example


or form of rhythm <iambic rhythm>
2 a : the aspect of music comprising all the elements (as accent,
meter, and tempo) that relate to forward movement b : a
characteristic rhythmic pattern <rumba rhythm>
1 a (1) : rhyming verse (2) : POETRY b : a composition in
verse that rhymes
2 a : correspondence in terminal sounds of units of
composition or utterance (as two or more words or lines of
verse) b : one of two or more words thus corresponding in
sound c : correspondence of other than terminal word
sounds: as (1)
1 : a lyric composition;
specifically : a lyric poem
2 : the words of a song --
often used in plural
c : one of a number of distinct
groups composing a larger
group
2 a : a part of a song or hymn
recurring at intervals
1 person who composes words
or music or both especially for
popular songs

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