Hypnotic And Weak Elements In Music

According to Goodall, “rhythm is the part of music that interacts most immediately and spontaneously with human bodies. Without it, music would be pleasant enough, but it would be brain food. With rhythm, music becomes hypnotic and sensuous.” A simple example that I can give is the rhythm of human heartbeat. Besides, from walking to dancing, from clicking fingers to tapping toes, it is the program to respond to rhythm.
Generally, rhythm is the time element in music. It is an ordered recurrent alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence in speech or the pattern of regular or irregular pulses caused in music by the occurrence of strong and weak beats. Rhythm shows the movement with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat. It is also the aspect of music comprising all the components which are pulse or beat, tempo, subdivision, accent, syncopation, swing and cross-rhythm that relate to forward movement. …show more content…
Firstly, to better understanding on rhythm I have to understand the pulse or beat. Beat is used to measure the length or duration of the musical sound, notes, and silences, rest. Classical music that without played with drum might hard to find the rhythm or I can say the rhythm of it is just complex as the pulse is not explicit. For an example, Romantic Piece No. 4 by Dvorak has combined both cello and piano. It used piano to play the beats, and cello is playing the repeating rhythm at the same