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What is Rhythm? An Essay

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PROF. SONNENSCHEIN has made a substantial contribution to the subject of rhythm. There are very few persons who could have written this book, which shows a scholarly familiarity with the verse of many languages, with music, with phonetics, and with psychology.

What is Rhythm? An Essay.

By Prof. E. A. Sonnenschein. Accompanied by an Appendix on Experimental Syllable-Measurement, in which Stephen Jones and Eileen Macleod have co-operated. Pp. viii + 228. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925.) 10s. 6d. net.

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HARRIS, D. What is Rhythm? An Essay . Nature 116, 602–603 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116602a0

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