The Music of Hindostan c21.45

c21.45

vādī, unison, i.e. starting point of consonance, 108. vakra, crooked, 153, 328. valam, covered boat, Travancore, 38, 39. varek, the ‘deflect’, 183. variation form, Ex. 12, 27, 38, 42, 43. varja, transilient (q.v.). varṇavṛtta, ‘syllable-fixed’, 193. vasanta-tilaka, a metre, 197; Ex. 280. vibhāg, see āvard. vikrta, chromatic, 107. passing-note, 273. vilambita, adagio, 241. vīṇā, stringed instrument, 9, 78, 79, 88, 112, 148, 171, 172, 183, 227. vinata, lengthened appoggiatura, 275. violin, 8, 162. virāma, rest (in music), 200 and note, 256, 276. ‘visual’ music, 342. vivādī, dissonance, in particular the semitone, 108. vocal and instrumental, 150. vocalizing syllables, 23, 280. vocal scale, 276-9. vṛddha, increased (prosody), 251, 255, 256.