or HINDU MUSIC. 
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From these they form their melodies ; here are a few of 
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The first of them is like our Diatonic Major Scale ; the 
second like the Dorian Authentic Mode ti-ansposed ; the 
third like the Phrygian Mode transposed, perhaps sho wring a 
common origin with the ancient Greek Modes ; the fourth, 
strange to say, is identical with one of the scales in Hun- 
garian music, a Minor scale with two augmented secoirds. 
The Hindus never mix one mode or scale with another; 
whatever scale a certain melody is derived from, they never 
modulate out of it, as we do, for instance, from the Major 
into the Minor Mode or vice versa ; this is one cause of the 
monotony of their music, — another is their imperfect know- 
ledge of harmony. 
In latter times, however, owing to the influence of 
Mahomedan music, and their intercourse with Europeans, 
they have tolerated the use of a few accidental notes 
foreign to the mode or scale from which some of the melo- 
dies are derived; these accidentals would in some cases 
