The Music of Hindostan c11.84

Language: English

c11.84

What surprises us most in this music is its predominantly conjunct motion.¹ Leaps of all sorts are taken, including those which do not appeal so much to us—the tritone and the augmented second. But if small they still have the character of being a, if not the, next door note; if large, they seem to be merely a means of getting quickly to some other contrasting register. They do not seem to be used for the pure pleasure of the interval itself, as in many examples we might quote from our music:

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