The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c5.47

c5.47

Roman music was brought to perfection by Greek musicians and their pupils, and Greek modes were introduced by them. The early ecclesiastical modes appear to have been derived from those of the Greeks. Many of the older contrapuntal rules as to the employment of intervals had their origin in the imperfect scales in which the ecclesiastical modes were composed. All this goes far to show the possibility of the elaborate counterpoint of the present day having had its prototype in the old Sanskrit râga system.