The Music of Hindostan c16.189

c16.189

Three other Hindu forms are the *Sargam* (for Sa, Ri, Ga, Ma), called also *svarāvarta*, or *surāvarta*, and in the South *Svarā*, a passage sung to the Sol-fa names instead of to words, taking the place of our cadenza; the *Tarāna* (*Tillāna*), the same thing with drum-words instead of Sol-fa syllables, and the *Trivaṭa*, the same thing to nonsense-words; and lastly the *Caturaṅga* (‘in four sections’) consisting of *Khyāl*, *Tarāna*, *Sargam*, and *Trivaṭa*.