The Music of Hindostan c9.s2.50

c9.s2.50

With regard to the transilient scales, I received from the melodies sung in them a strong impression that they were in just intonation—that a major and minor Tone made a major Third, that the Sixth was just and not sharp. There is no reason, however, why tertian intervals (which this implies) should not have been accepted in pentatonic scales later, and yet the origin of these have lain originally in pure quintal harmony. An argument may be found to support this.