The Music of Hindostan c10.3

c10.3

A change of scale is a change in a prescribed order of notes brought about by the melodic impulse. It is a more or less violent change in pitch of some one note which results in musical ‘effect’, exhilarating, pathetic, &c. In the following Song of Somerset, ‘Sovay, Sovay,’ the pathetic flattening at (a) is a purely melodic