The Music of Hindostan c7.262

c7.262

Imitation at different levels may be seen in Exs. 117, 140, 141, 142, 163. Cross-rhythm occurs in Ex. 161 where the third line wavers between two bars of 3/4 which suits the words of the first and third stanzas, and three bars of 2/4 which suits those of the others: a device of frequent employment in the cadences of Handel's time. Another instance is in Ex. 167 where the ‘throbbing and aching’ is to be accented as triplets, but in strict time, not ‘three in the time of two’, giving a pleasurable shock analogous to that felt at the beginning of Brahms's third Symphony.