The Music of Hindostan c14.76
The Music of Hindostan c14.76
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c14.76
Drumming of this kind is in fact the substitute for counterpoint; it serves the same purpose as that does of carrying on the interest of the music over the ‘dead’ points, or of converging on a crisis. We are familiar with just such cross-rhythms in fugues; in the following example the voices are never all in the same rhythm, and throughout bars 80 and 81 they are all in different rhythms: