The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c9.34

c9.34

Mr. J. A. Kappey, in his collection of “ Songs of Eastern Europe,”⁵ draws attention to the characteristics of Turkish songs, and to the fact that they employ a scale having a minor third with an augmented fourth, and a minor sixth with a major seventh. A comparison of the examples he gives with songs of India will be of great interest; and the similarity of both melody and rhythm is striking. One of the songs quoted—a song of sorrow by Nihad Bey—might be from India; it appears to be written in much the same form, and it is also to be noticed that it employs a mixed time of 3/8 and 2/4, precisely the Indian Triputa Tâla, already noticed.