The Music of Hindostan c13.s3.71

c13.s3.71

To continue: C and D give five varieties of dactyl, amphibrach, and anapaest (— ◡ ◡, ◡ — ◡, ◡ ◡ —). D. II is the normal dactyl, &c.; the rest of D lessens or increases the proportion of the long to the two shorts. C is our old friend the ‘cyclical’ dactyl¹ which modern theory has criticized out of existence, for Greece at any rate, but which made a considerable stir in its day. Here at any rate it has five separate values of its own. E gives the cretic (— ◡ —), bacchic (◡ — —), and antibacchic (— — ◡).