The Music of Hindostan c10.35

c10.35

By these three methods, (1) similar tetrachords, (2) dissimilar tetrachords, and (3) scalar alteration, we can account for all the modes we know. There are of course other ways of accounting for them, but this is the plan on which the Indians have worked; only they have carried it further and included every practicable combination of both tetrachords.