ABSTRACT
It would be appropriate to attempt a parallel farewell gesture in relation to the preceding discussion as a whole. Although this may have the character of an essay, with all that that implies of the speculative and exploratory, it warrants a similar summary, and a suitable way to begin would be to measure it against its initial proclamation of intent. It would be presumptuous to suppose that the particular goal has been achieved, even if the findings have, in general, been approved by Touraj Kiaras. From a western perspective, it could fairly be objected with regard to the pre-composed pieces that although the abstractions presented distil patterns of pitch relationships with reasonable clarity, this is because they are already fairly near the surface of the original notations.
