The Music of Hindostan c17.69

c17.69

3. This leads to another point. The typical forms of ascent and of descent are apt to differ in one and the same *Rāg*, which is then called ‘crooked’ (*vakra*). The Hindus are most strict about the observance of the type. Its origin probably lies in this tendency which we have been discussing—the tendency to choose, between two consonant notes, the note of passage next to that which is being quitted, thus: