The Music of Hindostan c15.25

c15.25

It will be noticed in these examples that with the exception of an occasional grace-note or appoggiatura—and a great many more grace-notes are put in than appears in the text, for seldom is a note ever sung, as we should say, clean—the syllables are allotted one note each; there are no melodic figures like the ligatures of Gregorians. For these we turn to the