The vertical stacking of these oblong components, and the rhythmic shapes echoed in the background, gives "Perpetual Sunset" its floating effect.

The other outdoor elements - trees, clouds, smokestacks, telephone poles, water - are depicted in rhythmic and dramatic shapes that play off one another almost musically.

His more ambitious paintings, with their formulaic compositions of repetitive rhythmic shapes and garish colors, become tedious.

We may conclude that rhythmic shapes determine melodies more than do pitch patterns.

One of the main factors, in creating melody and in determining an idiom is that of rhythmic shape.

His choice of tempos accommodates their rhythmic shape and gives coherence to the layers of different voices.

Because that's what they're here for, to give melodic, harmonic, rhythmic and verbal shape to life as we know it or wish we knew it.

Ballet should not borrow its rhythmic shape from music.

Bonga, a charismatic performer, whipped the band into rhythmic shape as soon as he walked out on stage.

Other characteristics of Ockeghem's compositional technique include his liking for varying the rhythmic shape of voices, so as to maintain their independence.