The Music of Hindostan c4.15

c4.15

The table of *Rāgs*, 151, 152. Appropriate times and seasons, 153. Sources of *Rāga*, 154, 155. Tessitura, 156. A *Rāg* is not a tune, 157; but it conforms to law, 158, 159. Conjunct motion, 160-2. Harmony and harmonization, 163, 164. Instances of *Rāg*, 165-9. Re-entrant *Rāgs*, 170. The drone, 171-3. Comparison with European melody, 174-6; and with the ecclesiastical modes, 177, 178. Imitation, 179. The intervals chosen in melody have no basis in harmony, 180.