The Music of Hindostan c17.8

c17.8

Here the second half seems to defeat rather than to supplement the first, because the descending thirds, though they balance, do not develop the ascending, and the repeated quaver motion is monotonous. Or, if we reverse the process, the one note we do not desire after the first section is the high E♭; but we get it three times, and the climax consequently drags. Also the sixth bar going over exactly the same ground as the third at half the pace forms an anticlimax.