The Music of Hindostan c12.58

c12.58

The numbers over the bars of the skeleton tune represent the beats (see *Tāl*). The graces are here written out in full, because abbreviations would have been confusing, and on the diatonic notes so as the better to be taken in at a glance. But if the grace of bar 3, for instance, were put, as it were, under an aural microscope the real sounds would appear something like this: