The Music of Hindostan c15.s1.16

c15.s1.16

*Consonance* (*saṃvāditva*). The consonance which was suggested by two tetrachords, F–C and E–B, is carried out further in line 23, where the seven notes are divided into two similar tetrachords. This consonance holds whatever the intervals may be between the notes within the tetrachord. For the intonation of these we depend on the identifications in lines 14 and 21 of the *Sāman* notes with those of the secular scale, which, as we saw (p. 114), was at least as old as the oldest of these treatises.