[Y-Indology] modern pundits and classical metres

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See what you think of these:

 

http://www.ahista.com/vedchant/#contents

http://sanskrit.bhaarat.com/Dale/index.html

 

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Valerie J Roebuck

Manchester, UK

 

 

At 1:46 pm -0500 27/11/02, phillip.ernest wrote:

>Hi list:

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>A friend of mine showed me the way to a site with recited and sung

>Sanskrit from the Gita, the Upanishads, the Vedas, and other classical

>texts. For some reason I can't make my computer play it; but from what I

>remember of what I

>heard on her computer, the Sanskrit was recited in such a way that it

>seemed that the classical metres were completely ignored and destroyed,

>even though

>this method (whatever it was) had its own beauties. I wish I could hear

>it again (I'll keep trying). It made me wonder how those modern pundits

>who

>pronounce Sanskrit more or less according to the way their mother

>languages are pronounced, relate to classical metres. It seems to me that

>the modern pronunciation of the visarga would be particularly damaging to

>the metre, since it introduces a whole new syllable that the kavi did not

>intend to be there.

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>Phillip

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[Guest guest]

Thanks. As soon as I have figured out how to download audio (this is more

difficult and complicated than sandhi), I'll go on a listening spree.

I've already received a substantial, and very helpful, offlist lecture

on my bibliocentric naivete about Sanskrit phonology. I pronounce

according to Coulson, whose method represents an interpretation of the

phonological descriptions of ancient grammarians. I chant Sanskrit in

something like the way in which European poetry is sometimes chanted,

which is surely a complete cultural dislocation, not resembling any way in

which Sanskrit has ever been read. The site I was listening on didn't

name the method and tradition according to which the verses were being

sung. There seems to be enough audio Sanskrit online these days for a

pratyekashiSya to at least begin to develop an ear for the different kinds

of recitation.

 

Phillip

 

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Valerie J Roebuck wrote:

 

> See what you think of these:

>

> http://www.ahista.com/vedchant/#contents

> http://sanskrit.bhaarat.com/Dale/index.html

>