sprung rhythmn.
/ˈsprʌŋ ˌrɪð(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈsprəŋ ˌrɪðəm/ 1. A poetic metre approximating to the rhythm of speech, in which each foot consists of one stressed syllable either alone or followed by a varying number of unstressed syllables.The term was coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).
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sprung rhythm1877
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > action of putting into rhythm > types of rhythm
swing1829
sprung rhythm1877
dance-rhythm1880
ragtime1896
slow drag1901
rumba1912
polymetre1922
cross-rhythm1926
tangana1926
counter-rhythm1927
ride1935
walking beat1935
ricky-tick1937
rock1937
shuffle rhythm1940
isorhythm1954
shuffle beat1955
tango rhythm1966
makossa1973
1877 G. M. Hopkins Lett. to R. Bridges (1955) 46 Why do I employ sprung rhythm at all? Because it is the nearest to the rhythm of prose,..the least forced, the most rhetorical and emphatic of all possible rhythms.
a1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1918) Pref. 6 Sprung rhythm..has..ceased to be used since the Elizabethan age.
1947 Philol. Q. Jan. 18 Sprung rhythm allows an unusual degree of variation because..the number of slack syllables within each foot need not be uniform.
2009 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Apr. br9 The prophetic tone, the pseudo-scriptural idiom, the run-on syntax and sprung rhythm all mimic the Cormac McCarthy of ‘Blood Meridian’ and the Border Trilogy.
2. In extended use in Music. Rhythm characterized by strongly marked irregular accents, usually within a regular rhythmic pulse.Mainly associated with the music of Michael Tippett (1905–88).
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triplac1550
semibreve time1591
common measure1597
common time1597
nonupla1597
triple1597
binary measure1609
triple time1654
treble time1686
ternary measure or time1728
alla breve1731
ribattuta1740
four-four time1826
compound time1848
dotted rhythm1872
six-eight tempo1873
six-four1873
six-eight time1884
six-four time1884
six-two time1884
twelve-eight1884
slow drag1901
two-rhythm1901
three-four1902
sprung rhythm1944
songo1978
one-drop1979
1944 M. Tippett String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp (verso front cover) The 4th movement needs a decisively sprung rhythm on which virtually the whole movement is based.
1985 N. Butterworth Music A. Copland i. 25 The last movement, ‘Dance of Mockery’, opens with a brilliant sprung rhythm in irregular metrical patterns.
2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 13 Oct. 13 He achieves it through astoundingly long-breathed melodies, buoyed aloft by the sprung rhythms of early English music.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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