The Music of Hindostan c10.37

c10.37

They are ‘pure’ when the two tetrachords of which they are composed are similar. In theory every note of a *Rāg* should be consonant (*samvādī*) to some other, and the effect of this would be to make the tetrachords similar, as we have seen that they are in the European modes. But they are similar in others also, such as