The Music of Hindostan c17.37

c17.37

would be very unlikely to occur in their music. There would be no way of hitting the diminished Fifth (‘ist des’) unless the D were the *aṃśa*; and if it were, it would be impossible that so important a note should occur only once, and at such an insignificant point of the phrase. The intervals at ‘Müllers Lust’ would be practicable if C# were *aṃśa*, but they would not be at all typical, as the Third which immediately follows (‘Wandern’). A Third, in fact, is habitually taken as a changing note: