The Music of Hindostan c15.s1.174

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c15.s1.174

MELODIC FIGURES. Mention should also be made of a method of handing down the traditional manner of singing. Melodic figures which constantly recur are directed to be sung after a certain well-known pattern. For instance, the cadence to the first line of the first hymn (given above) is:

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