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### 1.192 rhythm

ES: ritmo, I: ritmo, F: rythme, D: Rhythmus, NL: ritme, DK: rytme, S: rytm, FI: rytmi.

(a) Metrical rhythm in which every time value is a multiple or fraction of a fixed unit of time, called →beat, and in which the normal →accent recurs in regular intervals, called →measure. The basic scheme of time values is called →meter. (b) Measured rhythm which lacks regularly recurrent accent. In modern notation such music appears as a free alternation of different measures. (c) Free rhythm, i.e., the use of temporal values having no common metrical unit (beat).

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