The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c8.11

c8.11

A list of these notes has been given because in many of the Sanskrit treatises directions are given to employ samvâdi alternating or otherwise in conjunction with the vâdi notes in the performance of certain râgas. In the text these samvâdi notes are not shown; but they are known from their respective vâdis, in much the same way that an accompanying harmony to an air used to be, in European music, often merely figured.