The Music of Hindostan c15.s1.188
The Music of Hindostan c15.s1.188
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c15.s1.188
A purely vocal scale is so foreign to our music that, though we may understand it, we have difficulty in feeling its musical force. The following melody from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (i. 144) appears to be in such a scale; and its constituent notes happen, curiously, to be exactly those of the Sāman scale: