The Music of Hindostan c13.s3.119
The Music of Hindostan c13.s3.119
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c13.s3.119
If the length of the *āvard* were not certain, the rhythmical ‘mode’, which has a connotation of its own just as the melodic ‘mode’ has, would not be clear, and all cross-rhythm, a corner-stone of this music, would become impossible; for this presupposes a constant against which something else is inconstant.