The Music of Hindostan c6.185

c6.185

They are quite different from the neighbouring tunes; both have a large compass, ten or eleven notes, and both oscillate from tonic to dominant, each section closing on the tonic. The woman also definitely closed her tune on the tonic, making a pause, which an Indian seldom does; and it is rare to find instances of such disjunct motion as in bar 4, where the dominant chord is distinctly formed twice. Lastly the arrangement of bars in Ex. 43 is elaborate—4 + 3 + 4 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3; and the quick tripleted rhythm unusual.