The Music of Hindostan c9.s2.99

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c9.s2.99

This example shows also the other two *śrutis*. The Comma of Didymus and the Pythagorean Limma are correlatives; the two together make up the diatonic semitone (22 + 90 = 112). The latter occurs, therefore, in the fifth bar of Ex. 205. The ‘small semitone’ appears also in the accompaniment of the next bar. The *locus classicus* for this interval is the Elizabethan madrigal, in which a minor Third is frequently, and with beautiful effect, substituted for a major Third, as a deliberate ‘False Relation’:

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