The Music of Hindostan c17.23

c17.23

of which the sixth of the scale (A♭) is *aṃśa*, with E♭ for its consonant, we see that the leaps are mainly to those notes, or round them, but not anywhere else. The tune swings between these two, generally in conjunct motion but with an occasional leap to one or other of them, and comes to rest between whiles on the tonic. Intervals as constituent parts of chords hardly ever occur, because chords form, for an Indian, no intelligible relationship.