The Music of Hindostan c11.189

c11.189

(not at all unlike that of the Sixth Ecclesiastical Tone) which is on the ‘strong’ note and therefore in a sense a ‘full’ close, but which is not the tonic, and therefore points away, as it were, to something beyond it. Also the rhythm of the ninth bar is difficult. The eighth and ninth bars are taken as one sweep of melody and in strict time, but with the prosody of the words crossing this time in the ninth bar, as if it were