What is asymmetric about the bell phrase? What is symmetric about the bell phrase? What other symmetric units are occurring in the music?
What will be an ideal response?
• The bell phrase consists of unequal lengths of strokes, long and short (asymmetry), but the duration of a bell phrase is a symmetrical unit, a "literal measure of the time."
• The axatse and kaganu tones mark that measure (of the duration of the bell phrase) into four equal ternary units.
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