The Music of Hindostan c17.30

c17.30

The augmented Fourth and diminished Fifth, which we avoid, are common with them. Although any sequence may be justified by its context, yet we consider on the whole the first interval slightly vulgar, and the second a little mawkish as melodic progressions, perhaps because they emphasize unduly the notes of a rather trite harmony. Where harmony is non-existent there can be no such feeling, and they are freely used in the following melody between the *amśa*, D♭, and the Fifth of the scale, G: