The Music of Hindostan c17.13

c17.13

Again, they must have a firm tread along some high road of rhythm whatever flowers they may stay to gather by the wayside or whatever excursions they may make to points of interest. Rhythmic strength lies in subordinating the attractive figures to the steady march of the whole, not in pursuing them for their own sweet sake (as in some of the more dreamy episodes of Mendelssohn’s Fugues), nor in hunting them to death (in the various forms of Rosalia).