rhythmize
verbEtymology From rhythm + -ize.
1
To put into a rhythm; to make rhythmic.
- Though we do not know the state of the folk-song of the Northern European peoples before the eleventh century, we see clearly, beginning with that period and afterwards, the tendency to rhythmize even the unrhythmical modes.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 110:
2
To follow a rhythm.
- Derived terms
- rhythmizable
- Related terms
- rhythmization