The Music of Hindostan c15.22

c15.22

but the passage is too short to show the compass. At any rate, Dr. Felber¹ gives two specimens of *Yajurveda* on pp. 108, 116, which show a compass of a Fourth and a Fifth respectively; his example (p. 106) of the *Ṛgveda* reaches a Sixth. This is perhaps only one more instance of what is so common in music, the ‘official’ rules lagging decades or centuries behind the practice. His three examples (of both Vedas) show a foundation scale D, E, F, though one of them begins in E, F♯, G, and continues in E, F, G.¹