The Music of Hindostan c10.102

c10.102

Next, if we suppose that with the progress of music this general tendency to have a high Predominant for some songs and a low one for others becomes more defined and scientific, the need would arise to determine precisely how high or how low; and a note would be taken and enforced from which to measure the height of the Predominant. This would be done solely for the musical reason of giving more decided character to the tune, of making explicit what was before implicit. If then a low ‘lie’, such as D or E, was required by the character of the song, and C was chosen as the measuring note or drone, its ‘mode’ would now become a *Rāg* (particularized mode) of the form