Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The throwing or bringing of successive impressions into rhythmical form; or, the taking on of the rhythmical form by such a succession.
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Examples
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While it is well recognized that a rhythm does not consist necessarily of sound sensations, the 'rhythmization' of a series of sound sensations in the ordinary perceived rhythms is a matter of great interest.
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Characteristic of her work from the beginning of the 1920s is geometrization and rhythmization of composition, which stressed the expressive aspects of her painting.
Mela Muter. 2009
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The variations of this period present different curves in the two cases of subjective rhythmization and motor expression of definite rhythm forms.
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The attention of the subject counts for much, and this distinction -- of involuntary from voluntary rhythmization -- which has been made chiefly in connection with the phenomenon of subjective rhythm, runs also through all appreciation of rhythms which depend on actual objective factors.
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He insisted that the 'mental activity' is always primary, and that without it there can be no rhythmization; and he opposed vigorously the motor inclinations of
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This change I have interpreted as indicative of a progressive definition in the process of rhythmization, depending on an increase in coördination and differentiation of the reactions as the series advances.
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There is thus present in the process of mechanically accompanying a series of regularly recurring auditory stimuli a complex rhythmization in the forms, first, of a differentiation of alternate intervals, and secondly, of a synthesis of these in larger structures, a process here traced to the third degree, but which may very well extend to the composition of still more comprehensive groups.
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In order to isolate and exhibit the tendency toward rhythmization in regularly repeated motor reactions, one should examine series of similar movements made at different rates both as an accompaniment to
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On the other hand, the temporal value of the unit which appears as the result of subjective rhythmization undergoes a progressive decrease in absolute magnitude as the rate of succession among the undifferentiated stimuli is accelerated.
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Acceleration of the speed at which a simple trochaic succession is presented results thus, first, in a more rapid trochaic tempo, until the duration of two rhythm groups approaches more nearly to the period of subjective rhythmization, when -- the fundamental trochaism persisting -- the previous simple succession is replaced by a dipodic structure in which the phases of major and minor accentuation correspond to the elementary opposition of accented and unaccented phases.
hernesheir commented on the word rhythmization
I've witnessed a prolonged spate of crowd applause change from random and chaotic to rhythmical, to the surprise and wonderment of some in attendance.
December 27, 2010