The Music of Hindostan c9.20

c9.20

We have no hint as to which note is to be regarded as the tonic, though it would be a reasonable guess to consider the lowest note to be so as a rule, because the large majority of Indian melodies are authentic, not plagal. Ignoring any suggestion of that sort, the arrangement adopted here is to group together those scales which respectively make (1) the Fourth, (2) the Tritone, (3) the Fifth, or (4) the Fourth and the Fifth, their basis, placing between the groups those which show approximations to these intervals. Where there might be doubt as to which interval was intended, a slur, or if an approximation a dotted slur, has been added.