Text: A term used with various significations; (1) A foot, as a subdivison of a bar or measure. (2) The relation between two feet having the same subdivisions of time-units, but in a different order of succession. (3) The proper grouping of a number of consecutive feet. Authors who use the term in this last sense, consider it as equivalent to rhythm and divide it thus: Metre (rhythm) Measures (bars with accents) Feet (groups of time-units) Units of Time (short and long) But it will be seen further on that htis division is not good; and also that the incorportion into music of the terms of prosody is not desirable. Before entering on this discussion, it is necessary to give a list of the names and nature of the most important feet. Dissyllables have two units of time capable of four-fold arrangement: + + Spondee - - Pyrrhic + - Trochee or - + Iambic Trisyllables or feet consisting of three time-units are of eight kinds: - - - Tribrach - + + Bacchic - + - Amphibrach - - + Anapest + + + Molossus + - - Dactyl + - + Cretic + + - Palimbacchic

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