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  • Beyond Tālaprastāra in Indian Music:Prosody as a Generating Function of Rhythmic Complexity in Aruṇakirinātar's Tiruppukaḻ
  • V. N. Muthukumar
Table 1. The second and third columns show speech and rhythmic durations of sound in Tamil prosody that determine the characteristics of meter and tāla, respectively. The final column shows the classes of sounds: hard (H), soft(S), and medium (M) used in determining the vaṇṇam. See text for a discussion.
Table 1.

The second and third columns show speech and rhythmic durations of sound in Tamil prosody that determine the characteristics of meter and tāla, respectively. The final column shows the classes of sounds: hard (H), soft(S), and medium (M) used in determining the vaṇṇam. See text for a discussion.

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