The Music of Hindostan c11.129

c11.129

the first is a *Svarāvarta*, an exercise sung to the *Svaras* (Sa, Ri, Ga, &c.) used as a teacher's model of the *Rāg*; the other two are simple songs for children. We learn that the E is made prominent by the melody circling about it, or stopping there; that the passage E–G or G–E may be taken as a leap, but that if the movement is slow an F♯ is inserted as a grace-note (not an F♮); on the other hand, an F between two E's is always made natural. Of the following songs, ‘Dukhera beshe’ is a hymn of the Brahma Samāj; I do not know why the mode is called *mishra* (mixed). ‘He mora debatā’ is a poem. Both are *Khyāls*, and by Rabindranath Tagore. ‘Hādi e illah’ is a *Thumri* from Benares. It was sung to me by a Mohammedan in Bombay with very genuine feeling. The words are Hindostani. The *Rāg Kalyānī* does not differ much in this particular melody from *Imankaliān*, except that occasion might arise, but does not, for F♯'s.