The Music of Hindostan c9.s1.6

c9.s1.6

*Grāma*, lit. ‘village’, as opposed to jungle (*araṇya*), means a civilized as opposed to an unsophisticated scale.¹ The name has been applied specifically only to three scales—the *Sa-grāma*, our major with a sharpened Sixth, the *Ma-grāma*, our major C-c, but intended presumably to be used as an F-f scale with a sharpened Sixth, and the *Ga-grāma*, possibly intermediate between these two, long obsolete.