The Music of Hindostan c8.s2.5

c8.s2.5

This is a common practice in the mediaeval songs of Germany, and may be compared with Dufay’s signature ‘Karissime Dufay vous en prye’ or occasionally ‘Du[Figure: musical notation]y’, and with Palestrina’s incorporation of the titles of the 119th Psalm (Aleph, Beth, &c.) into his Lamentations. Two of the syllables of Tyagarāja’s name (ga-rā) would have admitted of the same treatment; but there is no instance of his adopting it. It was also a practice of his time to set the syllables of the song to the notes which they name,¹ as as in the example quoted by Day, p. 72: