Melodie Als Quantitativer Rahmen: Die Aruz-Formeln In Den Gelehrten" Gesängen Der Kasantataren

In Tartar folk terminology, the term "bäyet" is understood as being a multiple strophe oral story. In contrast to lyric folk songs, the bäyet texts are understood among the people to be the development of a written individual work, as something "learned" and not folkloristic. One encounters the four aruz meters among the strophes of the bäyet songs that were a part of the complete "learned" Volga Tartar poetry until the 1920s. In addition to texts that strictly follow the aruz meter, there exists a "bäyetlär" that follows the aruz meters only in the number of syllables. The musical rhythm becomes a sort of metrical cast of the original aruz text that is later replaced by a syllabic text.