The Music of Hindostan c9.s2.98

c9.s2.98

¹ C, the sixth of the scale, is normally a minor tone from B♭, the fifth. But the basses E♭ and F in the third and fourth bars are a major tone apart. And therefore the melody which they bear (the B♭ and C) must here be separated by a major tone. Similarly, in the fourth and fifth bars, where we have modulated to F minor, the F and the G (and therefore the C and the D) are a major tone apart.