The Music of Hindostan c9.s2.105

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× 3 = 42 cents). It is present wherever, for instance, G♯ is taken as A♭. A fine example of this forms the climax of the introductory bars to the second Act of the *Walküre*. (2) The difference between four minor Thirds and an Octave (316 × 4 − 1200 = 64), of which a rather wooden example is to be found leading up to an entry of the C major subject in the overture to Smetana’s *Bartered Bride*. (3) The difference between twelve Fifths and seven Octaves (702 × 12 − 1200 × 7 = 24). This occurs in a descending form in the six bars which follow Wotan’s words ‘So küsst er die Gottheit von dir’ at the end of the *Walküre*, and, ascending, in the five bars which close the first of Vaughan Williams’s *Five Mystical Songs*: