The Music of Hindostan c20.s4: Musical Examples

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(Panjābī), the books of the Poona Gayan Samāj (Marāthi), and the hymns of the Brahma Samāj (Bengālī), although it has not been thought worth while to print more than a few dozens of them. Even a smattering of Indian languages helps; it is useful to be able to recognize under the forms Dhol, Dholka, Dholaka, and Dolu the same instrument, and under Saurashtra, Surati, and Sorat the same Rāg, and to be able to check to some extent the vagaries of proof readers. A great number of songs are contained in Sangīta Prakāśika, vols. i-viii, in progress. Calcutta (in Bengālī notation). See also Nos. 1, 2, 9, 22, 40.