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Ref. Code : 008-004
The Syriac-Malayalam Hymnal
Compiled by
Rev. A. Saldanha S. J. , 1937
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- Printed at - Codialbail Press, Mangalore, for the Cathedral Church, Calicut, in 1937. Pp. 27 + 181 + x + v.
- Part I - Syriac chants of the solemn high mass of the Chaldeo-Syrian rite of Kerala text transliterated in Malayalam, music in Western staff notation.
- Part II - Malayalam devotional songs in Western staff notation. This is the first publication of Syriac melodies in staff notation in India. Probably, these melodies were composed in Kerala. The Preface in English and Malayalam, pp. 9-18 by Rev. Saldanha is quite informative, among other things, on the status Christian music in Kerala in the first quarter of the twentieth century.