The contract is a major catalyst for the U. It's also important that the governance processes and mechanisms are in place, they make sense to you and they fit what you are trying to accomplish. Maserati's product launch cadence also is off schedule.
If you're a businessperson who bikes to work, you may spend your morning commute thinking of the cadences that guide your professional activities at the same time as you stay aware of your cycling cadence—that is, how fast you're pedaling:.
As we begin to climb the first sustained hill on our mile ride our speed drops significantly, my cadence slows … — Kyle Bryant, The Huffington Post , 18 Dec. This sense of cadence broadly covered by sense 1b of the definition, "the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity" is also used of the pace of runners and swimmers:.
So it's not such a reach to use cadence to describe business activities—in fact, those who do are just keeping in step with everybody else. Words We're Watching talks about words we are increasingly seeing in use but that have not yet met our criteria for entry.
Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. To regulate by musical measure. Example Sentences: 1 Degraded visual acuity had a significant effect on cadence, foot placement, and foot clearance, but visual surround conditions did not.
Rhythm Definition: n. In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc. Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.
A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables. The harmonious flow of vocal sounds. Fabulous Friday morning post: a writing lesson illustrated with a knock-out article and a Bob Fosse number. Now, it's showtime! Janet : Thanks for this morning's master class. I'm going to sound oh-so-smart when I initiate a conversation about this with my musician son later this morning. Elise : I'm moving too.
I have an idea! Let's co-write a song about moving. And the refrain will be all about boxes. Boxes, boxes, boxes. And we'll call it " Colin 's Song. It's almost like the call and response of the drill seargent calling cadence. This is how Ken Bruen writes. Goldie Hawn as Private Benjamin. I'll confess, when I'm writing, I don't think about the difference between cadence and rhythm.
Rather, I think about what sounds good and what doesn't. Which words create the effect I'm looking for, and which don't. What feels right; what sucks. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be aware of the difference between cadence and rhythm. As writers it's our job to find the right words for things, so this is important. But you certainly don't need to know the difference before you write.
Just as neither Mozart nor McCartney thought about music theory before they composed. They just sat with their respective instruments and coaxed tunes from the ether. Let me offer a somewhat contrary description of cadence and rhythm in writing, which perhaps comes from writing a novel very focused on musicians and music. In music cadence is a melodic series that introduces, carries, or concludes a musical section.
It is, or at least was, unique in both cadence and rhythm. The cadence is the very distinctive chord progression. If I sat at the piano and just played the chords as half notes most people would immediately recognize the symphony. The cadence here establishes the seriousness and gravity of what is to follow. I can only imagine the reaction from the first audiences to hear the piece.
The cadence immediately makes us pay attention, whoa, this piece is serious. It has gravitas. The rhythm is also distinct. At the end of this combination of cadence and rythm , we must pay attention. We must slide to the edge of our seats, full of anticipation. They work together, cadence at a larger longer scale. In my mind the cadence to that novel is the progression in tone and feel, from light and lively, to near triumph and an end to a potential happy novella where a happy sister is married off , to a long period of mellow, almost sad caused after Bingley leaves, to and angry climax at Rosings, followed by… The rhythm in the writing is very different and on a smaller scale.
Read carefully and you can feel the ebb and flow of her conversations from the way her words and sentence structure force you to read and understand either slower or faster, just as she commands. You can almost feel the fast pounding of her heart as she encounters Darcy in the park. Sorry for busting my word limit. Amy I am all in. Boxes everywhere and not a one quite right for packing a crock pot.
What to do! Tourists often turned to watch and sometimes clap. Robert: Just want to say that I appreciate your analogy and explanation. For me--and maybe it's because I grew up reading poetry, which has a similar structure--writing is music. James Michener famously said, "I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
It's the movement and the inflection, the gorgeous rise and fall. In writing, the heartbeat is the metronome and the words are the lyrics to the song that makes up our story. It's our responsibility as writers to make sure we hit the right notes. I'm getting away with my own metaphors here. But I just love this. I love music, I love words. I just love this place where we get to discuss it all. This might be my favorite post ever.
We've got rhythm and cadence. We've got freaking amazing movie clips "The Aloof" part of Sweet Charity is beyond words. And we've got Janet giving us, literally, marching orders. Omg - I'm dying here! Yes - It's True! My mind must not work well on three hours sleep.
I couldn't follow this discussion at all. I'll have to try again when I'm fully awake. As Janet calls her minions march and sing: What will we do with a query response? What will we do with a query response? What will we do with a rejection letter? What will we do with a full request, oh?
What will we do with a offer pone call? Early in the morning Way hay and up she rises Way hay and up she rises Way hay just keep writing Early in the morning And that's three posts, and way way over word limit. I'm sorry. A few typos here. The ones I saw despite not having finished my coffee yet were: This recent artcile in the WaPo drill seargent calling cadence You can have flexible, flowy phrases and still have rythm Feel free to delete this post.
I'll give my actual comments in another post. In one of my former lives I was an Air Force squad leader. Part of my job was writing cadence and calling it for my squad. Our drill sergeant used to hover in range just to hear what we came up with. My goal was to make him laugh. Just before graduation I got a snicker out of him. Good times! In my life before the Air Force I was a music performance major. To me, rhythm is musical sharkly agent.
Cadence is going somewhere. This is all well and good, but I feel I need to repost a timely warning from March edited slightly based on comments : It was a rather non-descript house on the seedier side of L. Pale green peeling paint on rotting wood, steps that shrieked to take my weight, a door punctured with bullet holes. Inside, the curtains were drawn. On the floor, the heart-wrenching sight of people, many of them ordinary-looking, bankers, lawyers, nurses, spaced out in front of laptops.
All of them aspiring writers in various stages of creative inebriation. Some were sprawled out, like the first man I encountered. He was staring at the ceiling with dilated pupils, a stupid grin on his face. I don't think he even knew I was there. His hand had a vice-like grip on a wad of paper. It seemed he had just completed a parody, a murder-mystery set at a gumbo contest. He called it "Phantom of the Okra. One woman, an accountant, told me she was working on a Mary Poppins parody based on her experience moving out west.
The song she was working on was about her refrigerator which had an issue with its ice dispenser. Don't say I didn't tell ya If you have a copy paper box, it should fit your crock pot and coffee maker ours did last time we moved. That is the best part of any Bill Murray movie - the way he got those clueless soldiers in line with a song.
And what a song! One of my favourite movies. I'm reminded that I haven't seen it for awhile. I think I even have it on DVD I find rhythm very important in writing. Maybe it's because my first love was poetry with rhythm and rhyme - Charge of the Light Brigade, for instance. Now tell me that poem doesn't have cadence: Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Now, any poetry with rhythm and rhyme is considered doggerel, no matter how well written. Which is why I don't read or write much poetry anymore.
It's gone all literary, completely out of the realm of the ordinary person. Give me Shakespeare. Give me Tennyson. Or any of the other TRUE poets. Even E. Cummings had rhythm and he used cadence to effect, too , despite not rhyming most of his work.
Cummings I don't know how the formatting will show in my comment, but it's that "onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat" that shows cadence, I believe When a critique partner told me I needed to change the name of a much-used weapon in my series, I told him it had to have the same number of syllables with the same rhythm. He was baffled. He thought I should call it the Megatron , but that was too long, too mouthy, and gave the feeling of a huge science fiction-y weapon.
And the rhythm was completely wrong. I finally kept my original word, but gave it an explanation for the slight misnomer. Rhythm is important.
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