The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c7.112

c7.112

Time, by which is implied the relative values of a succession of notes, cannot be expressed with any degree of accuracy without indeed so complicated an arrangement of signs as to be almost unintelligible. The method is described fully in the Sanskrit works, but from this reason it has fallen into disuse. The value of the note is invariably taught orally by a master, and the ear is thereby cultivated to a very high degree.