The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c9.228

c9.228

In Hindustani music the elaborate arrangement of scales previously described is not used, but merely twelve; all of which, however, are found, and are in common use, though under different names, in the Karnâtik system. The tâlas, or measures, employed in Hindustani music are similar to those previously described upon page 36. As regards the form of Hindustani melodies, in place of what has been styled “pallevi,” “anupallevi,” and “charanam,” or stanzas, all their songs consist of distinct parts. The pallevi is styled asthayi—the anupallevi antâra—and the charanam abhōg. As the differences between the two systems consist mainly of technical points, which would be of slight interest to the reader, the following observations will, perhaps, be sufficient.