The Music of Hindostan c11.187

c11.187

The melodies ‘Dukhera beshe’ and ‘Hādi e illah’ do not lose so much as some others in notation: if they are sung with a little faith and goodwill some impression at least will be conveyed of their sincerity and quiet fervour. ‘He mora debatā’ is perhaps more difficult; the melody will strike a European at first as running up hill only in order to run down again. There is a great temptation to regard the close as in A minor and to supply a G harmony to the fourth bar; and these temptations must be firmly resisted. The fourth bar rises to the tonic (not the seventh of G) through the ‘strong’ notes A and E (not C); and an F pedal must be held on in order to get the plaintive character of the close