numbers. figures: metronome, rhythm, tempo, number of beats per minute, proper tone of despair and intrigue.

 

Why the Olympics are going forward

The Olympics have always been about numbers. After all, a motto of Citius, Altius, Fortius — Faster, Higher, Stronger — doesn’t mean much without seconds, meters and pounds. How fast? How high? How strong?

For more than a year, though, rising coronavirus case counts and struggling vaccinations have made some hesitant about the Games.

A month before the opening ceremony, our reporters looked at the question through numbers, including this eye-popping one: $15.4 billion. If Tokyo’s new national stadium stands empty on the night of the opening ceremony, that will be $15.4 billion in investment mostly down the drain.

The figure, a record even for famously oversize Olympic budgets, has swelled $3 billion in the past year alone. The reputational damage to Japan, though, on top of the loss of money, would be incalculable.

Another figure: 15,500. Postponing the Olympics forced thousands of athletes to put their lives on hold — to recommit to another 12 months of training, to delay marriage and children.

And there is political peril in Japan: 37 percent is the current favorability rating for Japan’s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga. His political fortunes may be tied too closely to the Games to cancel them.

Sir Carol liked to pay careful attention to every detail in his films, and for that reason often co‐produced them. Settings, costumes, lighting, all had to be created to his exacting standards. Often, after a film had been completed, he would be struck with an idea that changed its entire tempo.

In the case of “The Third Man,” for example, after a complete orchestral musical score had been written and recorded for the sound track, Sir Carol was struck with the idea of using a catchy tune, played on a zither, for the entire length of the film. The tune was a popular success on jukeboxes for more than a year, and it not so coincidentally gave the movie just the proper tone of despair and intrigue.

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on the beat

1. Keeping time with the rhythm of a song.We're going to go through the dance routine once more—let's try to stay on the beat this time, people!

2. Regularly patrolling a certain area. When used in this way, the phrase is usually applied to police officers.I always see police officers on the beat in our neighborhood.

tempo とは【意味】速さ,テンポ... 【例文】the fast tempo of modern life... 「tempo」の意味・例文・用例ならWeblio英和・和英辞書.

Find our FREE METRONOME online, made so that you work on your rhythm, tempo, number of beats per minute, etc.

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rhythm

リズム【rhythm】

 の解説

1. １ 強弱・明暗・遅速などの周期的な反復。「生活のリズムが狂う」

1. ２ 音楽の基本的要素の一つで、音の時間的な変化の構造。アクセントが規則的に反復する拍節的リズム、アクセントの継起が不規則な定量リズム、音の長さに一定の単位をもたない自由リズムなどに分類される。「リズムに乗って踊る」

1. ３ 詩の韻律。

metronome の定義

名詞      節拍器

1

a device used by musicians that marks time at a selected rate by giving a regular tick.