The Music of Hindostan c10.120

c10.120

leading to a substantive note (a) which is either the *aṃśa* (D), or its consonant (G), or the drone (C). This is a particularly easy *Rāg* for us, because C, G, and D are notes we should have no difficulty in feeling to be important; but when, in other *Rāgs*, D and A, or E♭ and A♭, are *aṃśa* and *samvādī* it is not so easy to feel the musical impulse, though it is not hard to understand the principle.