The Music of Hindostan c17.18

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c17.18

to be unvocal, but they employ them quite commonly. What makes intervals vocal is the fact that the note to which the leap is made is familiar. For us, it is made familiar chiefly by its forming some intelligible harmony with the note which is quitted. We can realize this in the phrase at the end of Brahms’s *Mainacht*:

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