The Music of Hindostan c15.47

c15.47

There was, not unnaturally, great difficulty in inducing priests to sing these chants, and one man, at Bangalore, offered in lieu thereof ‘Sanskrit in the style of Sāman’. But the unusual content of the words shows its influence in the more or less rhythmical phrases induced by the prosody, which take the place of those vocal phrases and melodic figures which flow naturally from the liturgical use of the words in the Sāmaveda: