The Music of Hindostan c6.29

c6.29

Melodies like these are appropriate to particular occupations, and new words are fitted to them from time to time. For the traditional occupations a new tune is seldom invented. The tune for each occupation has a special name. In Behār, every mill-song is a *jātsār*, every cowherd’s song a *chāchar*, and so on.¹