The Music of Hindostan c14.117
The Music of Hindostan c14.117
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c14.117
He would not have devised it exactly in this way, since, in the absence of harmony (which he does not mentally supply, as we do) and in the disregard (4 + 4 + 5 + 4 + 5) of the fixed section (4 + 4, &c., or 5 + 5, &c., which he demands), there is nothing to hold it together. But he would be in sympathy with the metrical scheme: