There is no rule that dance has to be responsive to a strong, rhythmic impulse, or that the music must provide it.

He moves with the easy grace of a man attuned to the rhythmic impulse that links music and poetry.

She also can summon a rock singer's rhythmic impulses and do Bessie Smith without embarrassment.

Mr. Bychkov gave the gentler of these Hungarian folk dances a genuine lilt, and the quicker ones benefited from a sharp, driving rhythmic impulse.

But its oddly austere beauty had much to do with its embodiment of the rhythmic impulses and formal patterns of its Beethoven score.

At one point, Mr. Berio adopts the rhythmic impulse of a Baroque fast movement.

These chambers are controlled by an electrical system that generates rhythmic impulses.

He played "Little Niles" and "Tanjah," his own compositions, as strings of vamps, reordering them according to improvised rhythmic impulses.

The Lorries' chant-like songs set up a resonance, a mood, a rhythmic impulse.

Presumably, both men deserve credit for the vital rhythmic impulse underlying virtually the whole performance, which sustained involvement throughout.