The Music of Hindostan c14.21

c14.21

TIME-INTERVAL. These drum-words (*bol*) are distributed in drum-phrases (*theka*), which constitute the drummer’s *memoria technica* for the particular *Tāl*, and in drum-variants (*parand*)²; the former’s duty is to ‘keep up’ the *tāl*, the latter’s to ‘swell’ it (Pingle). In the next diagram are exhibited *thekas* of *tintāl* from different localities.