The Music of Hindostan c13.s3.110
The Music of Hindostan c13.s3.110
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c13.s3.110
It may be answered that theirs is derived from song, ours from the dance or the march. That both are based on the numbers 2 and 3, but that they add and we multiply in order to form combinations of these. But the answer which goes deepest is that their music is in modes of time (as we saw also that it was in modes of tune), and that ours changes that mode at will by means principally of the harmony.