The Music of Hindostan c10.8

c10.8

A change of mode is a change in the relative importance not of one note, but of all, brought about by a shift of the rhythmic centre of gravity. The following Folk-song,¹ ‘A sailor's life,’ shows in its three versions a change both of scale and of mode. We may take the germ of the song to be contained in the pentatonic form marked I, which is placed for comparison between two derivatives, II and III.