The Music of Hindostan c13.s3.120
The Music of Hindostan c13.s3.120
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c13.s3.120
The ‘section’ in Europe is often, too often, also of four bars; it is this fact that makes much of our church services musically unattractive. But the section can have, and in the best music it has, a varying number of bars. Its length is altered, either really or apparently; it is either actually shortened or lengthened, or else two equal sections are made to overlap so that one seems shorter than the other. Any work on large lines will supply examples of this; here, for instance, in the passage for flute and bassoon out of *Leonora*, No. 3: