The Music of Hindostan c17.153

c17.153

The bars in the music follow this scansion roughly, the first and second lines being farsed with a ‘jubilation’ (see p. 255); but beyond this the music pays, as far as its structure is concerned, no attention, as indeed our best melodies do not, to the poetical form; it only sees that a long syllable is provided with a long note as ours see that a stressed syllable comes on the musical accent.