The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c9.126

c9.126

The two melodies following are both in the scale called Máyamálavagaula. The intervals of the scale are so peculiar and so many harmonical combinations can be formed from them that it well deserves attention, especially when it is remembered that this is a scale largely used by the Hindus, and that all elementary exercises taught to pupils are invariably upon this scale, instead of, as would be supposed, the diatonic major, which is by us commonly regarded as natural.