The basic elements of music in the order of their importance are: rhythm, melody, and harmony. Rhythm is the basis of all music, from the rude beating against a reverberating hollow tree, the stamping of feet, the clapping of hands, the grunts and cries of a savage people when performing any of their ceremonials, to the highest development of our most modern compositions.

We can say that Rhythm is regular recurring accent, nothing more and nothing less. We either accent one of two, or one of three beats, and, while there are many kinds of compound rhythms, they are all derived from these two and always resolve themselves into these component elements.

Double rhythm is the natural rhythm – rising and falling, action and reaction, ebb and flow; our chief voluntary and involuntary movements are in pairs. We inhale and exhale; we walk, and, having but two feet, we must do it in double time – therefore all marches are written in double time, usually four simple counts to a measure.

Although double rhythm is the natural rhythm, at one period (and a very long one, when music was the ward of the Church) triple rhythm was designated the perfect rhythm, because Three is the symbol of the Trinity, The sign used for triple rhythm was the circle, symbol of perfection, and we have still a relic of this in our modern sign for “common” or 4/4 time – the capital C, which stands for that rhythm. The circle

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