The Music of Hindostan c20.s8: Sāmaveda

The Music of Hindostan c20.s8

Language: English

Sāmaveda

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41. Martin Haug, *Ueber das Wesen und den Werth des wedischen Accents*. Munich, 1874. pp. 107. Gives particulars about accents, notation, and the musical hand.

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42. A. C. Burnell:
(a) *The Ārsheyabrāhmaṇa (being the fourth Brāhmaṇa) of the Sāmaveda*. Mangalore, 1876. pp. li. The introduction of fifty-one pages is in English.

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43. (b) *The Saṃhitopaniṣadbrāhmaṇa (being the seventh Brāhmaṇa) of the Sāmaveda*. Mangalore, 1877. pp. xx. Introduction in English.

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44. Friedrich Chrysander, *Über die altindische Opfermusik*, *Vierteljahrsschrift für Wissenschaft*. Leipzig, 1885 [14 pages]. Describes ritual and form.

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45. Oskar Fleischer, *Neumen-Studien, Abhandlungen über mittelalterliche Gesangstonschriften*. 2 vols. Leipzig, 1895. pp. 128 + 136. Index to each volume. Details of musical hand. See also No. 3.

46. Richard Simon, *Das Puṣpasūtra. Abhandlungen d. K. Bayer. Akad. der Wiss., 1. Kl., XXIII. Bd., III. Abt., pp. 484–779*. Munich, 1909. Pages 510–526 give lists of the various forms of ligature (*Tontypen*) and of technical terms. This is the latest and most authoritative work.

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47. A. A. Macdonell, *Vedic Grammar*, being vol. i, pt. 4, of the *Grundriss d. indo-arischen Philologie*. Strassburg, 1910. Pages 76–9 give a succinct account of the musical character of accent, and its marking in the *Sāmaveda*.

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48. Martin Haug, *Aitareyabrāhmaṇa of the Ṛgveda*. A full account of the Soma ritual.

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49. M. Śeṣagiri Śāstrī, *Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Oriental MSS. in the Madras Library*, vol. i, pt. i, pp. 3, 4. The only account by an Indian in English.

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50. Erwin Felber, *Die indische Musik der vedischen und der classischen Zeit. Sitzungsberichte der Kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, philosophisch-historische Klasse, 170. Band, 7. Abhandlung*. 1912. pp. 189. Indian recitation and chant. Contains forty-six Phonograms taken by Felix Exner in 1904, of which eight are *Sāman* chants, provided with *Ṛgveda* text and *Sāmaveda* text and notation critically edited. See also No. 27.