The Music of Hindostan c17.20
The Music of Hindostan c17.20
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c17.20
The leap ‘die Wang’’ is peculiarly dissonant; it consists of two diatonic semitones, which are greater than a whole tone by 20 cents; but it is made intelligible for us because it is a passage from the Neapolitan Sixth to the dominant chord, which is a perfectly familiar sequence. The other leaps are all justified to our ear as harmony notes.