The Music of Hindostan c17.92

c17.92

In the first three cases the notes marked (*) have only been heard as passing notes, and now they are made substantive; in the last case three of them have not yet been heard at all. There are special reasons, no doubt, for constructing the theme of a fugue in this way, but incidentally it has great melodic point. Two notes are similarly kept in reserve in the tune of Sullivan just given, and they (F and A♭) are the making of it. Similarly also in the ‘Swanee River’ the 7th and 4th of the scale are kept in reserve, in ‘Come lasses and lads’ the 4th, in ‘Farewell Manchester’ the 7th; whereas the ‘Vicar of Bray’ and the ‘Bay of Biscay’ put all their goods in the shop window. The last line of Schubert’s ‘Wandern’, again,