Off Rhythm

Author: April Adams
Publisher: Lechner Syndications
ISBN: 9781927794272
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
Kelley steps to the mat. Presents and poses. Inhales. Steps and extends her leg. Exhales while throwing herself into a wind-milling leg extension that positions her pointed toe exactly opposite from the tip of her head. Her pointed leg spins in opposition to her shoulders and head so that when her foot reaches straight up to the sky, her head almost touches the floor and all while spinning a hoop on her wrist. Kelley and the Kips are back, but this season Kelley is determined that not only does she need to execute skills with precision and performance, she needs to do it while throwing, catching and balancing a ball. Rhythmic gymnastics is Kelley's new passion but can she balance old friends, new friends and her sport, or will she be thrown Off Rhythm?

Off Beat

Author: Jan Hein Hoogstad
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401208875
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
Off Beat: Pluralizing Rhythm draws attention to rhythm as a tool for analyzing various cultural objects. In fields as diverse as music, culture, nature, and economy, rhythm can be seen as a phenomenon that both connects and divides. It suggests a certain measure with which people, practices, and cultures may comply. Yet, for this very reason rhythm can also function as a field of exclusion, contestation, and debate. In that respect, rhythm possesses an underestimated meaning-creating potential. Whereas its connecting force is often accentuated in the aesthetic, political, and commercial usage of the term, the divisive aspect of rhythm is at least as important. This volume wants to rid rhythm of its harmless, nearly esoteric, reputation as a cosmic unifier by understanding it in the light of the contemporary medial turn. In the present collection of essays, we have encouraged approaches that combine political, aesthetic, musical, and theoretical dimensions of rhythm. Jan Hein Hoogstad is Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen is Associate Professor in the Section for Aesthetics and Culture, Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Cardiology Explained

Author: Euan A. Ashley
Publisher: Remedica
ISBN: 1901346226
Category : Cardiology
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
One of the most time-consuming tasks in clinical medicine is seeking the opinions of specialist colleagues. There is a pressure not only to make referrals appropriate but also to summarize the case in the language of the specialist. This book explains basic physiologic and pathophysiologic mechanisms of cardiovascular disease in a straightforward manner, gives guidelines as to when referral is appropriate, and, uniquely, explains what the specialist is likely to do. It is ideal for any hospital doctor, generalist, or even senior medical student who may need a cardiology opinion, or for that ma.

Rhythm

Author: Vincent Barletta
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022668590X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
More than the persistent beat of a song or the structural frame of poetry, rhythm is a deeply imbedded force that drives our world and is also a central component of the condition of human existence. It’s the pulse of the body, a power that orders matter, a strange and natural force that flows through us. Virginia Woolf describes it as a “wave in the mind” that carries us, something we can no more escape than we could stop our hearts from beating. Vincent Barletta explores rhythm through three historical moments, each addressing it as a phenomenon that transcends poetry, aesthetics, and even temporality. He reveals rhythm to be a power that holds us in place, dispossesses us, and shapes the foundations of our world. In these moments, Barletta encounters rhythm as a primordial and physical binding force that establishes order and form in the ancient world, as the anatomy of lived experience in early modern Europe, and as a subject of aesthetic and ethical questioning in the twentieth century. A wide-ranging book covering a period spanning two millennia and texts from over ten languages, Rhythm will expand the conversation around this complex and powerful phenomenon.

This is Rhythm

Author: Ella Jenkins
Publisher: Sing Out Publications
ISBN: 9781881322023
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
A lively introduction to the basic element of music, speech, and sounds in all cultures. Each page is filled with lyrics and rhymes presented in varying shades of color to help children quickly learn how loudly or softly to sing and play. By tapping or rubbing together the accompanying rhythm sticks, children can imitate or create rhythms while singing along.

Feel It!

Author: Robert M. Abramson
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780769266404
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
An activity book, including two CDs of musical accompaniment, from Robert Abramson, a leading authority in the principles and use of the Dalcroze method. Feel It! offers parents, teachers, and other caregivers a wide selection for developing behaviors that lead to cooperation, character, good listening, and body skills.

Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Author: Anne Danielsen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317091396
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction presents new insights into the study of musical rhythm through investigations of the micro-rhythmic design of groove-based music. The main purpose of the book is to investigate how technological mediation - in the age of digital music production tools - has influenced the design of rhythm at the micro level. Through close readings of technology-driven popular music genres, such as contemporary R&B, hip-hop, trip-hop, electro-pop, electronica, house and techno, as well as played folk music styles, the book sheds light on how investigations of the musical-temporal relationships of groove-based musics might be fruitfully pursued, in particular with regard to their micro-rhythmic features. This book is based on contributions to the project Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction (RADR), a five-year research project running from 2004 to 2009 that was funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

The Geometry of Musical Rhythm

Author: Godfried T. Toussaint
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1466512032
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 357

Book Description
The Geometry of Musical Rhythm: What Makes a "Good" Rhythm Good? is the first book to provide a systematic and accessible computational geometric analysis of the musical rhythms of the world. It explains how the study of the mathematical properties of musical rhythm generates common mathematical problems that arise in a variety of seemingly dispara

Off the Beat

Author: Julia Ann Purcell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933638751
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description

Teaching Rhythm

Author: David Newell
Publisher: Debolsillo
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description