Definitions
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- noun music A
technique that arranges a fixedpattern ofpitches with a repeatingrhythmic pattern, used in somemedieval motets and in more recent works.
Etymologies
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iso- + rhythm, coined in 1904 by composer Friedrich Ludwig (1895-1970).
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"There is number mysticism all through the score, and it contains an explosion of the technique known as 'isorhythm,' in which rhythmic and melodic patterns are repeated, but not so that they coincide."
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They use regularly repeating rhytmic and harmonic structures so-called ‘isorhythm’ as a way of organizing relatively long spans of time.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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After some brief acquaintance with Nancarrow's music I formed a theory that, even when it looked like he was rather intuitively splashing notes onto the page, there was always some underlying tempo and even isorhythm to which everything referred.
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