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The Music of Hindostan c10.121

The Music of Hindostan c10.121

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c10.121

As we have been tracing points in common between Indian and Greek music, we may notice two more. One, that the salient distinction between the two *grāmas* is found in the four notes, F G A B of the *Sa-grāma* and F G A B♮ of the *Ma-grāma*; and this was precisely the distinction between the Greek ‘lesser complete’ and ‘greater complete’ systems. Only the problem presented itself differently. In Greece the scales were: