The Music of Hindostan c13.s3.67

c13.s3.67

Rank B has two beats to the bar, C, D, and E three beats, and F and G four. It is not difficult to see in these the two, three, and four-syllable feet of poetry. B gives various forms of the trochee (— ◡) and iamb (◡ —), according to the beat with which the rhythm begins. The five files allow for different proportions between the long and the short beat. We may arrange the ten possibilities of iambs and trochees in a graduated proportion to a scale of 100, and it will be seen that a large number of ways of dividing a bar into two beats has been reached by very simple means: