The Music of Hindostan c15.18

c15.18

In the second of these examples the syllables *Co-da* obey a rule that ‘when more than one *anudātta* precedes an *udātta*, all but the last are sounded lower’. Dr. Erwin Felber’s book, *Die indische Musik der vedischen und der klassischen Zeit*, contains (p. 106, No. 433) an example of recitation of the *Ṛgveda* ‘in the style of the old *Ṛṣis*’, which is more florid and of larger compass than any of these.