The Music of Hindostan c21.37

c21.37

sannatara, lower than anudātta, 247. Sanskrit language, 10, 190–3. poems recited, Ex. 8, 346. authorities, 74, 80, 105. sapphic, 195. saptaka, octave, 107. saraband rhythm, 213, 223. Saraswatī, goddess of music, 16. śārdūla vikrīḍita, a metre, Ex. 307. sargam, see svarā. satār, musical instrument, 78, 106, 172. scale, Chap. IV. See Greek and Sāman. scansion, 193–200, 338. schools of music, 9. Scotch music, 71, 126 note, 174 note, 184, 185. Scott’s ballad metre, 193. ‘Seeds of Love’, the, 154. Seligmann, Dr., 48 note. semitone, see interval. septimal interval, see interval. Śeṣagiri Śāstrī, 248 note, 250, 263. ṣāḍava, hexatonic, 122. shahnai or surnai, see nāgasaram. Shakespeare, 169. sharp and flat, 107, 108. sharp Sixth, 122, 125, 127. ṣaṭkāla, six-fold speed (treble diminution), 85, 86, 241. śatśruti, of six śrutis, 118, 119. śikhariṇī, a metre, 197. similar tetrachords, 138. singāra, stringed instrument, 31. singing, 89–91. Sir William Jones, 187. siyāhī, black plaster on drum, 227. ‘slide’, 66, 88, 190. See gharṣaṇa. śloka, ‘flowing’ metre, 193, 194. snake-charmer, 208; Ex. 274. solmization, 84, 149; cp. the musical hand. solo and chorus, Ex. 3, 9, 17, 18, 42, 54, 58, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 115, 122, 129. soma, plant, 249, 250. song, 78, 80–4, 341. sopānam, temple songs, South India, 43. South Indian scale, see Carnatic. ‘Sovay, Sovay’, 134. śṛṅga, horn, 79. śruti, enharmonic interval or note, 112, 113, 117, 127 and note, 132, 133. sthāna, voice-register, 82, 114. sthayi, see astai.