The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c9.27

c9.27

Hence the great difficulty of expressing such music correctly by means of ordinary notation. The peculiarity of the scales or modes employed in Hindu music often raises a difficulty in determining the real tonality of many of the melodies, the Hindu Sa, taken by native musicians as the “ Khuruj ” or keynote of their scale, not necessarily corresponding to what is the real tonic of the scale. Indian music has been compared to that of Scotland, but the resemblance can be traced principally to the frequent employment by both nations of a somewhat similar scale of five intervals, the fourth and seventh being omitted; and possibly also from the fact that a similar motive is often found in both, where the first note has one-fourth of the duration of the second, as—