When dissonance is called for, the guitarist Davey Williams provides flashes of anger that bite but never derail his rhythmic momentum.

And here, from the first tentative scrape of metal sole against wood, the show sustains a rhythmic momentum that all but pulls its audience onto the stage.

She moves faster, gaining some sort of rhythmic momentum, and I feel my climax building like a light bulb that's about to flash and burn out.

At the same time, she is able to communicate a subtly powerful and precise rhythmic momentum.

With simple patterns frozen into unvarying eight-bar phrases, there is no rhythmic momentum, development or sense of climax.

More than merely decorative, these embellishments lent the music much of its rhythmic momentum.

The point was to use jazz colors and rhythmic momentum in a symphonic shape.

In every era composers used various devices to achieve that rhythmic momentum - that's what I tapped into.

Bartok's sonata, which deals with the piano almost exclusively as a percussion instrument, is all about rhythmic momentum and craggy, blocky sonorities.

But instead of summoning up rhythmic momentum and striding toward Shostakovichian climaxes, this music closes in obsessively on itself.