The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c7.20

c7.20

Those of the first division are styled “Suddha-madhyama,” from the fact that in their construction they employ that note, or the perfect fourth, throughout. Those of the second, for a similar reason, are styled “Prati-madhyama,” and employ the augmented or tritone fourth. In theoretical works the scales are classified in sets or “chacrams” of six; the construction of each chacram, as will be noticed, being very similar.