The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c9.26

c9.26

The rhythm of the Pallevi and Anupallevi is usually a great deal more marked and regular than that of the stanzas, where the phrasing is frequently irregular, the periods being interwoven by means of, as it were, abbreviaturas, or extended by the prolongation and “rekhu,” a species of turn or transient shake upon a note in the middle of a roulade with which all Hindu music abounds. This is especially the case in the performance of râga as a solo, which in certain cases is absolutely timeless.