The Music of Hindostan c11.214

c11.214

About the simultaneous presence of Ma and Pa in the drone a word more may be said. It is interesting that the ‘consonance’ of the whole tone which appeals to the Hindus was one which the Greeks recognized too,² and we see that it is the logical outcome of quintal harmony. That the appreciation of the whole tone is historically prior to that of the major Third may also be gathered from the form of the pentatonic scale which may be pronounced typical. This is not *Bhūpaliān* [Figure: Ex. 275.]