Silappadhikaram by Ilango Adigal offers information about how new scales could be formed by modal shifting of the tonic from an current scale. Present day Hindi music was influenced by Persian conventional music and Afghan Mughals. Carnatic music, popular within the southern states, is largely devotional; the vast majority of the songs are addressed to the Hindu deities. There are also many songs emphasising love and different social points. Harmony refers to the “vertical” sounds of pitches in music, which suggests pitches that are performed or sung together at the same time to create a chord. Usually this implies the …