colotomy

This sort of cycling is called colotomy.

He did much to popularize colotomy.

Colotomy is a term coined by the ethnomusicologist Jaap Kunst to describe the rhythmic and metric patterns of the gamelan.

His landmark 1963 guide to medical terminology, for instance, teaches reporters how, by understanding prefixes, suffixes and roots, they can differentiate between a colotomy, a colostomy, and a colectomy and handle an occasional jejunojejunostomy as well.

The rebab does not have to conform exactly to the scale of the other gamelan instruments and can be played in relatively free time, finishing its phrases after the beat of the gong ageng (the big gong that "rules" the ensemble, see: colotomy).