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‖ svara|ˈswara|
Also 8 swara.
[Skr., lit. ‘sound, voice’.]
In Indian music, a note of a musical scale.
1792W. Jones in Asiatick Researches III. 68 The first of these [notes] is emphatically named swara, or the sound, from the important office which it bears in the scale. 1891[see murchana]. 1927Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 3) II. 705/2 The second subject..with only two variations, and after these a Svarā, or sol-fa'ed passage, by way of a cadenza. 1968Indian Mus. Jrnl. V. 28 He used to play the svara exercises on a single string. 1972P. Holroyde Indian Music vi. 221 The svaras or notes are still used for vocal gymnastic exercises. |