The Music of Hindostan c9.s2.29

c9.s2.29

The Greeks called the three notes which are separated by one *diesis* (*śruti*) the cluster (*pyknon*), and recognized three forms of tetrachord according as the lower note (*barypyknon*), middle note (*mesopyknon*), or upper note (*oxypyknon*)² of the cluster was made the tonic, i. e. the terminal of the tetrachord. If this ever formed a part of Indian theory, no trace of it has as yet been discovered; but the fact is here—the Greek enharmonic with the *barypyknon* and the enharmonic *Toḍi* with the *oxypyknon*. Further, *Toḍi* and its congeners are really distinct from other *Rāgs*, because, as has been seen, there is no place for them in Bharata’s *jātis*, which do not provide for the first and twenty-first *śrutis* which *Toḍi* involves. They may therefore point to a different basic principle of scale.