164 THE NATURE OF MUSIC 



ing lists will present the same series of rhythms and 

 each individual rhythm will appear in another set of 

 symbols thus : — 



etc. etc. etc. etc. 



This work may be supplemented by four other 

 lists in which the unit is divided into three parts as 

 follows : — 



1. ^- f f f 



2. r r r r r r lji^ £±/ 



3. r r r r un ^uj ^'^ r 



etc etc. ete. etc 



Such rhythmic work will cultivate alertness of obser- 

 vation and is stimulating to the imagination. How 

 to pursue and apply such work will readily suggest 

 itself to teacher and student. 



In its diversity of rhythmic forms, its play of 

 rhythm upon rhythm, its inexhaustible combina- 

 tions, mixtures and groupings of the most diverse 

 rhythms, music has only one rival, nature. Although 

 from the view-point of evolution mensural music is 

 but a thing of yesterday, although our historians 

 speak of much of the ante-metrical music as music 

 without rhythm, nevertheless when we consider that 

 all motion is rhythm, and that all form is rhythmic 

 form shaped by equilibrium, it follows that rhythm- 



