Asian Music, Volume 20

accompaniment ASIAN MUSIC Baban Beijing opera Bengal Bhajana Paddhati bhajana ritual bhakti Bosnia and Herzegovina cadences caste century chant Chaozhou China Chinese classical courtesan culture dance daoban drum dynasty ensembles erhuang Example festivals gazal Grove Dictionary Guangdong Guangdong opera Hakka Hindoos Hindoostan Hindu Hindustani interlude Islamic Jiang Jiangnan Karnatic known kunqu light-classical Liuban Loutchias lyric mode musical genre Musical Instruments musicians Muslim Muslim music Nautch NGMI North India northern notation performed phrase piece pitches played popular qupai Quyi regional religious repertoire rhythm Sampradaya sanban Sanskrit Sarinda score Scripture secular sevdalinka shange shifan gu singers singing sitar sizhu Solvyns Song dynasty songs sound South southern Bhajana Stanley Sadie story-telling strings structure style sung syllables tempo term thumri tradition tune Turkish Tyagaraja types upper sentence Urdu variations Veda Vedic versions Wang Wang Shifu xipi Yangzhou Yinyue Yuan Yuan dynasty yuanban Zhihua temple Zhongguo