A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c15.23.1

c15.23.1

I think that in our present text books, we can safely leave out of consideration that portion of our ancient text books which deals with the physiological theories of the production of sound But we will take the division of the gamut into 22 srutis adopted by these works for our gamut, and fix on it our shuddha scale, same as has been done in those works. It is well-known that our shuddha scale is the Bilawal scale, while that of some of the works is the Kali scale, and that of others is the Mukhari scale. If the sruti intervals of the ancient works are such as do not satisfy the modern principles of acoustics, these can be determined by modern science, and standardised by consensus of opinion If this is done, then the basis of the structure of our music will be standardised and uniform.