The Music of Hindostan c16.s1.197

c16.s1.197

From this point of view the modes too may be considered. The three chords just mentioned are practically statements that new notes are taken into the major scale (of C): the diminished seventh introduces A♭, the augmented triad D♯, and the whole tone chord E♭ and C♯. Other chords have, as they have appeared, introduced these or other notes.² The tonality of a scale may be quickly shown by taking all the constituent notes which are not part of the tonic chord, putting them upon the dominant note, and resolving them into the tonic. We will treat the principal modes thus in succession: