different between rhythm vs beatbox

English

Etymology

First coined in 1557, from Latin rhythmus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (rhuthmós, “any measured flow or movement, symmetry, rhythm”), from ??? (rhé?, “I flow, run, stream, gush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.ð(?)m/
  • Rhymes: -?ð?m
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???.?(?)m/

Noun

rhythm (countable and uncountable, plural rhythms)

1. The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.

   Dance to the rhythm of the music.

2. A specifically defined pattern of such variation.

   Most dances have a rhythm as distinctive as the Iambic verse in poetry

3. A flow, repetition or regularity.

   Once you get the rhythm of it, the job will become easy.

4. The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.

   We walked with a quick, even rhythm.

5. The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.

   The Baroque term basso continuo is virtually equivalent to rhythm

6. A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.

   The rhythm of the seasons dominates agriculture as well as wildlife

7. Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.

   The running gag is a popular rhythm in motion pictures and theater comedy

Synonyms

• meter / metre
• prosody
• (instruments providing rhythm) rhythm section

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Translations

English

Etymology

beat +? box

Noun

beatbox (plural beatboxes)

1. (music) A type of electronic percussion device.
   • 1992, Larkin, Colin, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music ?ISBN, Guinness, page 1340:

     Self-styled 'black gentleman vampire' who followed his cousin in to hip-hop by rapping in front of a beatbox for his first shows on Long Island, New York.

   • 1994, Sally Banes, Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism ?ISBN, Wesleyan University Press, page 322:

     But by 1980 Fenley had collaborated with Mark Freedman on the high-energy, repetitive sound score for Energizer by manipulating a beatbox, the omnipresent instrument of late disco music.

   • 2004, Ed Gaskell, Make Your Own Music Video ?ISBN, CMP, page 26:

     Hip-hop took the language and made it graffiti—it was music video on a wall with a beatbox blowing its subwoofers next to it.

Verb

beatbox (third-person singular simple present beatboxes, present participle beatboxing, simple past and past participle beatboxed)

1. (music) To use one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument to create beats and rhythms for music.
   • 2001, William Upski Wimsatt, Bomb the Suburbs ?ISBN, Soft Skull Press, page 69:

     Hell, why do so many of us still breakdance? Why do so many of us still beatbox? The two most successful rappers to come out of Chicago, Common Sense and The Brat, had nothing to do with the city-wide hip-hop scene.

   • 2004, Neil Kulkarni, Hip Hop: Bring the Noise: The Stories Behind the Biggest Songs ?ISBN, Thunder's Mouth Press, page 43:

     Before you knew it, everyone, everywhere, was trying to copy Fresh's technique, and every rapper on the planet seemed intent on proving they could beatbox (with varying, occasionally embarrassing degrees of success).

   • 2005, Derek Beres, Global Beat Fusion: The History of the Future of Music ?ISBN, iUniverse, page 102:

     Turull, group elder, and Wright, the youngest, play off each other extraordinarily well, be it on cajon or when the latter jumps up to beatbox against Marina’s lyrical sidesteps.

Translations

Spanish

Noun

beatbox m (plural beatboxes)

1. beatbox