The Music of Hindostan c13.s3.139

c13.s3.139

the harmonies by their postponement to the second bar clearly mark the beginning of a section there, and tell us that the phrase of the first bar is to be regarded as *extra sententiam*. Then by entering at the normal place in the sixth bar they proclaim that that phrase is now taken into the sentence. They are not responsible for the assertion that bars 6, 7 and 8, 9 each make a section ; that is made clear by the balance of the phrases they contain—the phrase of 8, 9 is an inversion of that in 6, 7. But the harmonies again compel us to take bar 10 as a section all to itself, for they exactly repeat those of bar 9, only a place higher. This somewhat intricate arrangement of sections would be confusing but for the fact that they make up in all a period of twelve bars—that is, the time length of three normal sections—and so their excessive variety is unified.