They're all tied into musical patterns, you know, notes and chords.

She tapped on the tree drum for a time, a rhythmic musical pattern.

The simple musical patterns used are a metaphor that holds the stories together.

The player strikes the Tumdak' with full hand and fingers as required by the musical pattern.

It is, in fact, part of the musical pattern heard behind the dialogue.

But her fingers kept searching out the flying people's musical patterns.

She says that mothers teach their children the language through constantly singing the same musical patterns.

"You can think of a whole day as a kind of musical pattern."

"You two are saying there's a musical pattern in all that?"

It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.