The Music of Hindostan c10.13

c10.13

It is the custom to consider the C-c scale to be the primary series of notes from which others (D–d, E–e, &c.) are derived, and of which they are modes. But it would be logically as defensible, and historically more correct to consider C–c as a mode of the D–d scale. The fact is that a mode when it is thoroughly established anywhere becomes the scale of that country, or countryside; thus, some of England sings by preference in the Mixolydian, some of it in the Dorian, and so on, Ireland in the Mixolydian and Aeolian. There can be little doubt that the difference between the *Sa-grāma* and the *Ma-grāma*, though it figures as a difference of scale,