The Music of Hindostan c9.23

c9.23

The interest of this table centres in the basic intervals (Fourth, Fifth, &c.) and the way they are filled up. So far as this small list may be considered to be representative, we find in it the largest group based on the Fourth, the next largest on the Fourth and Fifth together. This corroborates the conclusions from the Folksongs given above. But more interesting is the appearance of the Tritone as a base, and of the various approximations to it. There was a fairly large number of songs which employed this interval in Chapters I and II; so that it must be taken as an important factor of scale.