The Music of Hindostan c7.242

c7.242

In two particulars the Garhwālī and Gurkha songs here given (Exs. 94–128 and 129–139) stand out from the rest. They were in true intonation; the salient intervals, the Thirds and Fourths, unmistakably ‘just’. And they are in transilient scales; even if the scale is complete the notes follow each other in such a way as clearly to show that the melodies have a pentatonic basis (cp. Exs. 117 and 139), and it is probably correct to regard such hexatonic (ṣāḍava) and heptatonic (sampūrṇa) scales as ‘spoiled’ forms of the pentatonic (oḍava), as in the more familiar Scotch songs.