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The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.116

The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.116

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c6.116

The notation given in all the ancient treatises is very similar to that at present in use, letters only being employed to express the notes. The following, a fac-simile of the most ancient form of notation, is from the work of Sóma, and has been thus rendered into the European notation by Sir William Jones, who remarks:—