The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c7.2

c7.2

T HE modern theory of Indian music differs widely from that described in the ancient Sanskrit treatises, having, as has been said, passed through many changes in the course of time before assuming its present form. The peculiar division of the octave into twenty-two parts or s'rutis exists no longer in practice, and the employment of s'rutis or intervals less than semitones is *limited to grace*.