The Music of Hindostan c8.s3.88
The Music of Hindostan c8.s3.88
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c8.s3.88
The rhythm of Indian song is more fluid than that of European. It seems to cost us more, so to say, to be perpetually altering the accent; it produces a certain instability which has to be made up for in other ways. But there is no feeling of instability in these songs. Such a line as, flows quite as naturally as the close of Brahms's *Minnelied* :