The Music of Hindostan c9.s2.60
The Music of Hindostan c9.s2.60
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The śruti enters into music as one of three definite intervals. Just as there are three diatonic intervals (svaras), so there are three enharmonic intervals (śrutis). The diatonic intervals we have seen to be Major Tone, 9/8, 4 śrutis Minor Tone, 10/9, 3 śrutis Semitone, 16/15, 2 śrutis and the enharmonic intervals are such intervals as correspond to a difference of one between the śrutis of the svaras (or are the various quotients of the fractions which answer to those svaras). The numbers 4, 3, and 2 may be handled in three ways so as to produce a difference of one; thus: