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In music, rhythm is the arrangement of sounds and silences in time: the pattern of note durations and accents that gives a passage its shape as it unfolds. Cooper and Meyer's 1960 The Rhythmic Structure of Music analysed rhythm as the grouping of weak and strong events into figures, and carefully separated it from meter, the steady underlying grid of pulses against which those figures are heard. The referent is a felt pattern of durations in a performance, not a daily cycle in a living body, the timing of spoken syllables, or the beating of a heart.[1]
In chronobiology, a biological rhythm is a periodic fluctuation in a living system, and the best known is the circadian rhythm, the roughly 24-hour cycle in physiology and behaviour that persists even without external time cues. Konopka and Benzer's 1971 Clock mutants of Drosophila melanogaster showed that single-gene mutations could lengthen, shorten, or abolish this internal cycle, establishing that the rhythm is generated by the organism's own clock rather than merely following the day. The referent is a self-sustaining biological cycle timed in hours, not a pattern of musical durations, the timing of speech, or the beat of a heart.[2]
In linguistics and phonetics, speech rhythm is the temporal patterning of spoken language: the way the durations of syllables and the intervals between stresses distribute in time, and the basis for classing languages as stress-timed or syllable-timed. Ramus, Nespor, and Mehler's 1999 Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal proposed measurable acoustic correlates, based on the proportion and variability of vowel and consonant intervals, for what had been an impressionistic typology. The referent is a statistical pattern in the timing of speech, not a composed musical figure, a daily bodily cycle, or the pattern of a heartbeat.[3]
In cardiology, heart rhythm is the pattern and regularity of the heartbeat: normally a steady sinus rhythm set by the sinoatrial node, and abnormally one of many arrhythmias when that pattern is disturbed. Kléber and Rudy's 2004 Basic mechanisms of cardiac impulse propagation and associated arrhythmias reviewed how the electrical wave that drives each beat is generated and conducted, and how failures of that conduction produce disordered rhythms. The referent is the timing of electrical and mechanical beats in a living heart, not a musical pattern, a daily biological cycle, or the timing of speech.[4]
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