The Music of Hindostan c12.24

c12.24

i.e. as, practically, a three-quarter tone scale (which is decidedly rare in India, and as Ellis¹ points out is very nearly the same as, and is probably intended for, the Arabian Zalzal's scale, *Meshaqah*). But its grace-notes are entirely diatonic; and, what is more significant, they are used not to soften the transition from note to note of the melody, but, principally, to intensify them by a rudimentary harmony. This may be seen in the ‘Cock o' the North’, taken from McKinnon's *Collection of Pipe-music*: