ANDERSEN.—An Introduction to Maori Music. 759 
The second movement in Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is based on 
a rhythm almost identical with the above :— 
The great formal difference is that the Maori chant is rhythmical, but 
Beethoven’s rhythm is metrical in addition. 
In another chant the rhythm of the trochee was noted :— 
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Here the long-short was often resolved into the equivalent three shorts, 
the tribrach, and the rhythm of the chant consisted of various combina- 
tions of these two, trochee and tribrach. 
Another chant in dactylic rhythm differed from 3 above in the long- 
short-short being often resolved into the equivalent four shorts :— 
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One morning at Rotorua a woman Was heard uttering the following :— 
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It was very early, about 4 o’clock, but this chant rang out apparently 
without regard to the sleepers round about. It sounded very strange, 
rising from an otherwise quiet camp. The rhythm is the same as 1, but the 
wailing quality was absent. 
A similar rhythm was heard in one of the songs of welcome :— 
