The Music of Hindostan c11.85

c11.85

¹ So little is there any idea of the possibility of disjunct motion that there seems to be no distinctive name for it. The leap of a Third is called Abhyucchraya, ‘pressed together’; of a Fourth, Prastāra, ‘extension’; and of a Fifth, hiṃkāra (making the sound Hiṃ or Om, the syllable of the sacred name; the application is obscure). A singing exercise in mixed leaps is also called vārida (?). The old words nigraha, ‘subduing’ (sc. suppressing the intermediate note), and praveśa, ‘binding together’ (sc. the neighbouring notes)—disjunct and conjunct motion—seem now to be forgotten.