The Music of Hindostan c7.206

c7.206

were gathered from an unmusical ayah on board the steamer; she lost her key a good deal, and the songs were difficult to piece together. My interpreter could make nothing of her particular dialect (of Hindostani). Ex. 159 is evidently a distant variant of Ex. 156. The slide gave a wonderful ‘value’ to the close and the half-close of Ex. 160.