The Music of Hindostan c11.263

c11.263

It seems possible that closer investigation may one day discover in the European mediaeval modes, i. e. in the melodies which were sung in them, the counterpart of this distinction between ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ notes. When Luther, discussing the Church tones, said ‘Christ is a gentle Lord and His words are lovely; therefore let us take the sixth Tone for the Gospel; and since St. Paul is a grave apostle, we will set the Epistle to the eighth Tone’, we can hardly believe that the peculiar flavour which he was conscious of in these tones proceeded merely from the substitution of the notes