The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.117

c6.117

I have noted Sóma's air in the major mode²² of A, or Sa, which, from its gaiety and brilliancy, well expresses the general hilarity of the song; but the sentiment, often under pain even in a season of delights, from the remembrance of pleasures no longer attainable, would require in our music a change to the minor mode; and the air might be disposed of in the form of a rondo ending with the second line, or even with the third, where the sense is equally full, if it should be thought proper to express by another modulation that imitative melody which the poet has manifestly attempted: the measure is very rapid, and the air should be gay or quick in exact proportion to it:—