The Music of Hindostan c7.243

c7.243

The Gurkhas are Mongolians of Nepāl, and the Garhwālīs one of many Indian tribes of the Himālaya, and their use of this oḍava scale differs. The typical Gurkha form is GA—CDE (Exs. 94–7, 103, 107–9, &c.), (Exs. 129, 130, 137, plagal; and Ex. 135 authentic). The typical Garhwālī form is GA—CDE (Exs. 94–7, 103, 107–9, &c.), though there are instances also with C (Exs. 110, 127), D (Ex. 103), and E (Exs. 99, 123) for tonic. The Gurkha use is what the books represent as the typical Chinese scale; and it seems not impossible that the Garhwālī melodies present the form which that scale took on Indian lips, and that the transilient element of Indian song comes from the East (see Chapter IV).