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1632] AGRA AND DIVERS PERTICULARITIES THERE 2\J
I have here under sett a Mimmannee [miAmdni] (or
banquett) with daunceinge wenches by figure1, Vizt.,
A. A Table Cloth layed on the Ground.
B. The guest[s] sittinge on the ground also, with
great Cusheons behind them.
C. A servant beatinge away the flyes with a Chewra
[cAauAri], which is a horse taile on a handle.
D. Another with a puncka \j>ank/ta] (or leather fanne)-
makes wynd.
E. The dauncinge wenches.
F. One that playes on a Tabor or litle Drumme.
G. An old woman which doth only singe and clapp
her hands keeping a kinde of tyme.
H. A fellow beating on both sides of a Drumme
[tam-tam, tom-tom], in fashion like the Barricas
[Port., water-cask] wee have aboard the India
shipps.
I. A woman Clappinge two things like Sawcers of
brasse [small cymbals], keeping tyme also.
K. Girles or slave wenches sitting behinde the rest.
L. A learge Carpett whereon they all eat, sitt and
daunce, It is to bee understood they all singe,
aswell those that daunce as those that playe,
all of one note, except the man who is the
Diapason". Xoe thirds nor fifts in Musick as I
could heere4.
Goolees5 is a kinde of Composition made of strong
1 See Illustration No. 16.
' The hand panklia or large leather fan, not the swing pankhA
described ante, p. 191.
:i Mundy seems to mean by the diapason the man who provides the
motif or theme of the song.
4 Modern Indian music, like that of the bagpipe and the Gregorian
chant, has five notes to the modern European octave, and so the two
styles are irreconcilable. Mundy was right therefore in observing that
Indian music has no thirds or filths in the European sense.
6 G/iola, an intoxicant of opium or bhang.
I have here under sett a Mimmannee [miAmdni] (or
banquett) with daunceinge wenches by figure1, Vizt.,
A. A Table Cloth layed on the Ground.
B. The guest[s] sittinge on the ground also, with
great Cusheons behind them.
C. A servant beatinge away the flyes with a Chewra
[cAauAri], which is a horse taile on a handle.
D. Another with a puncka \j>ank/ta] (or leather fanne)-
makes wynd.
E. The dauncinge wenches.
F. One that playes on a Tabor or litle Drumme.
G. An old woman which doth only singe and clapp
her hands keeping a kinde of tyme.
H. A fellow beating on both sides of a Drumme
[tam-tam, tom-tom], in fashion like the Barricas
[Port., water-cask] wee have aboard the India
shipps.
I. A woman Clappinge two things like Sawcers of
brasse [small cymbals], keeping tyme also.
K. Girles or slave wenches sitting behinde the rest.
L. A learge Carpett whereon they all eat, sitt and
daunce, It is to bee understood they all singe,
aswell those that daunce as those that playe,
all of one note, except the man who is the
Diapason". Xoe thirds nor fifts in Musick as I
could heere4.
Goolees5 is a kinde of Composition made of strong
1 See Illustration No. 16.
' The hand panklia or large leather fan, not the swing pankhA
described ante, p. 191.
:i Mundy seems to mean by the diapason the man who provides the
motif or theme of the song.
4 Modern Indian music, like that of the bagpipe and the Gregorian
chant, has five notes to the modern European octave, and so the two
styles are irreconcilable. Mundy was right therefore in observing that
Indian music has no thirds or filths in the European sense.
6 G/iola, an intoxicant of opium or bhang.