rhythmopoeian.

1721 A. Malcolm Treat. Musick i. 33 That which answers to the Rythmica, they called Rythmopœia, containing the Rules concerning the Application of the Numbers and Time.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Rythmopoæia, one of the Musicial [sic] Faculties, as they are call'd; which prescribes Rules for the Motions, or Rhythm.

1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 730 To harmonic, rhythmic, and metric, in the theoretic, respectively answered melopϕa, rhythmopϕa, and poetic, in the practic.

1818 T. Busby Gram. Music 165 The ancient melopœia forms an important branch of modern vocal music: and the rhythmopœia is included in our present musical measures.

1864 J. Hadley Ess. (1873) 95 Widely as the rhythmopœia of Æschylus differs from that of Euripides [etc.].

1885 A. F. Christiani Princ. Expression in Pianoforte Playing (1886) iii. 35 It is sufficient to state, that when music began to be an art, as among the ancient Greeks, the ‘Rhythmopoeia’ of the latter..was solely connected with poetry.

1954 Musical Q. 40 13 The composer constructed a melody using the prescribed movements of the voice, stepwise or by skip, ascending and descending, applying at the same time the precepts of rhythmopoeia.

1988 Musical Times 129 301/2 Additional aspects of metre introduced in succeeding chapters include the influence of rhythmopoeia in some music of the period.