The Music of Hindostan c21.2

c21.2

abhaṅga, Maratha song, 300. abhigata, upward appoggiatura, 275. ābhog, section of song, 281. ‘Abroad as I was walking’, 128. absolute music, 341 and note. absolute pitch, 148, 149, 249 note. accelerando, Ex. 330. accent and quantity, 191, 192. accidentals, loosely used, 17, 27. āḍa = crooked, 216. ādi or tintāl, common time, 15, 204–17, 231. āditālaḥ, 202, 203. aeolian, 136, 178. aeolo-dorian (change of mode), Ex. 379. Āhvārakas, 258, 259, 264. Ain-i-Akbari, 84, 286. āk, eye, see siyāhī. Akbar, 83. akṣara, syllable, 156, 200–4. ālāp(a), prelude, 186, 235, 281. alcaic, 195, 196. alpa, weak (note), see balin. aṃśa, predominant note, 150, 177, App. I. central note of tessitura, 330 seq. in Bharata, 141. graced, 152. aesthetic effect, 156. contrast to drone, 280. = mesē, 142. see graha. Andaman islands, 208. aṅga, tetrachord, 141. = aṃśa, 142 note. animals, sense of pitch, 149. aniṣṭa, disagreeable; identified with vivādī, 114. antara, interval, 119. section of song, 281.