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The Music of Hindostan c21.9

The Music of Hindostan c21.9

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day, periods of, 153. ‘deflect’, 88, 183, 190. See dolana. descant, Ex. 273. Deval, Mr., 116, 348. devanāgarī, accents in, 247 note. dhā, drum-beat, see bol. dhā (of time), see bārobāri. dhaivata, note of the scale, 142, 263. dhara, the ‘slide’, 183. dhāraṇalakṣaṇa, musical treatise, 259. dhol, drum, 29, 59, 226–8; Ex. 141, 142, 333, 334. dhrūpad, old Hindu form of song, 160, 286. diatonic intervals, 103, 321. scale, see Greek, nīca. Didymus, see comma. digan, see duni. diminution, see augmentation. diñmātrā, general, i.e. indefinite time, 186. dīrgha, long (prosody), 200, 251 note, 255, 256. disjunct motion, 35, 36, 158, 322. tetrachords, 266. dissimilar tetrachords, 138. dīwal, braces (drum), 226. dolana, the ‘deflect’, 182, 183. dolu, see dhol. dominant, 178, 317. ‘dor-aeolian’, pentatonic, 135. dorian, 136, 178; Ex. 333. doric, 47 note. See Greek tetrachord. Dravidian, see Carnatic. drone, 31, 79, 137, 141 note 2, 171–4, 208, 263, 330, 344. drum and drumming, 10, 15, 24, 53, 76–9, 83, 89, 228, 230; Ex. 330–5. druta, quick note, 200. quick tempo, 241. duni, diminution, 241. duration, see stress. dviguṇi, see duni. dvitīya, note of Sāman scale, 257 seq. of time, 203.