The Music of Hindostan c15.s1.55

c15.s1.55

Herr Felix Exner was far more successful in 1904. His results have now been worked out by Dr. Erwin Felber, provided with text and translation by Herr Bernhard Geiger, and were published in 1913 under the title *Die indische Musik der vedischen und der klassischen Zeit* as a contribution to the history of recitation. Dr. Felber has very kindly given permission for their transcription here. The actual pitch is given, as before, by the breve at the beginning of each example. The *Sāmaveda* notation with which each of his examples is supplied is omitted here, because it is probably the notation of a different sect from that to which the singer belonged, who has, at any rate, taken no account of it except in a very general way. Felber's numbers are given for reference. He discusses the melodic structure of these chants in his third chapter (pp. 38–43).