The Music of Hindostan c12.37

c12.37

The example of Vasanta was selected mainly because this particular one was curiously misinterpreted in Sir William Jones’s article in *Asiatic Researches*, and has been so reprinted by others. It was written out in an ordinary major key (A major); no hint was given of a *gamak* from beginning to end; and on the strength of its rhythm (as *not* given in a book of 1609) it was suggested as the melody of three of the songs in the *Gīta Govinda* of the eleventh century (whose musical rhythm was *not* established by the poetic metre). Thus: