The Music of Hindostan c21.3

c21.3

anticlimax avoided, 328. anudātta, ‘not-raised’ sound, 246, 258, 259, 264. anudāttatara, comparative of anudātta, 247, 266. anudruta (quaver), and its subdivisions, 256. anupallavi, section of song, 281. anuṣṭubh, 194. See śloka. anuvādī, imperfect consonance, in particular the major third, 108, 114. appoggiatura, 146–8, 248, 275, 332; Ex. 274. double, 182. Appunn’s Tonmesser, 101. Apsaras, nymph, 76 and note. Arab music, 19, 37, 185. arcika, of the Ṛgveda, 122. Aristoxenus, 103, 114, 121 note, 125, 200 note, 277 note. ārohaṇa, ascending passage, 159, 275. arpeggios as chords, 317. āryā, a metre, 200. ‘ascending’ minor, 138. āsh, the ‘slide’, 183. association, its part in music, 1–3. astai, section of song, 281. aṣṭama (eighth), a note of the Sāman scale, 260. āṭa, or dhamār, a rhythm (5+5+2+2), see Tāl. āṭa, flour, used for tuning drum, 29, 227. Atharvaveda, 249. atihāra, farsed syllable, 276. atikomal, very flat, 107, 142. atikrama, transilience, 274. atisvārya, seventh note of Sāman scale, 260. atīvra, very sharp, 107.