The Music of Hindostan c11.267

c11.267

Each tone, or mode, must have had its individual notes characterized far more than appears from the mere formal statement of them. In this statement the relation of the *aṃśa* (Reciting note), marked (=), to the drone note (Final), marked (x), is the only discernible characteristic. But the other notes must have had felt relationships analogous to those of Indian *Rāga*. Amongst these one or two may be mentioned. It is common to find Dorian melodies with the sixth of the mode flattened; a common beginning was