The Sāmavedic melodies are sung on texts composed on specific Vedic metres. See Howard, Wayne, 1977. Sāmavedic chant. New Haven: Yale University Press. xxv, 572 pp., 48 ill., 8 tables.
Best wishes, Asko Parpola > On 4. Mar 2024, at 19.54, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY > <[email protected]> wrote: > > What I know from my personal experience is that the same meter is recited > with slightly different melodies in different regions, and occasionally the > same meter is recited differently in the same region depending upon the > context. A good example of this is the meter Śārdūlavikrīdita. It is recited > in the region of Maharashtra at least in two different styles in different > contexts. There is one style of recitation of verses in this meter that are > part of the so called Maṅgalāṣṭaka verses recited during weddings, and a > different style in other contexts. One can get a sense of this variation from > recordings available on resources like the YouTube. It is not clear to me how > one would go about finding traces of such variation in pre-modern periods. > > Madhav M. Deshpande > Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics > University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA > Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies > Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India > > [Residence: Campbell, California, USA] > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 9:01 AM Reich, James David via INDOLOGY > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Dear colleagues, >> >> I'm wondering if anyone is aware of any resources related to the history of >> the simple melodies that are attached to various Sanskrit and Prakrit >> meters. Is anything known about this? Do we know how old the melodies are, >> or when or how they originated, or how they have changed over the centuries? >> Secondary material would be particularly helpful, but if there is any >> primary material that would be helpful as well. Or simply if anyone knows >> anything about this or has any thoughts on it, I would be very curious. >> >> Thanks very much, >> James Reich >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
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