, and not that of
, which might lead the conductor into error.
It is exactly the same for the time, three in a bar, fast 3⁄4 or 3⁄8. Then the conductor must omit the gesture of the second beat, and, by remaining the period of a beat longer on the first, only raise the stick at the third.
It would be absurd to attempt to beat the three in a bar of one of Beethoven's scherzos.
In slow movements the rule for these two times is like that for two in a bar. If the movement is very slow, each time must be divided; and consequently eight gestures must be made for the time, four in a bar, and six for the time, three in a bar, repeating (and shortening) each of the principal gestures we have before instanced.
Example of three in a bar, very slow:
