The Music of Hindostan c13.s3.146

c13.s3.146

It is sometimes thought that these uneven times—5, 7, 10, 14, and so on—are full of suggestion for European composers. This on the whole may be doubted, because duration is not the same thing as stress. All these Indian rhythms have their *raison d’être* in the contrast of long and short duration, and to identify these with much and little stress is to vulgarize the rhythms. The only genuine instance we have of their method is Saraband rhythm, and we see instantly how in