The Music of Hindostan c17.47

c17.47

Here there is nothing unvocal from an Indian point of view, but the phrase repeated *totidem verbis* at different levels is not in their manner. A reason for this may be that their melodies swing from salient note to salient note, and that if the salient notes were in the important places in the first phrase they would not be so in the second, and vice versa, so that the point of the contrast would be lost; it would be like reading poetry thus :