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Nicolas: Musical Terms in Malay Literature NSC Working Paper No. 24
Table 12: Nobat Musical Terms in Malay Classical Texts Indexed from the Malay Concordance Project (MCP) Database Online
Number of Prose Texts with Sanskrit musical terms = 46 out of 70
Number of Verse texts with Sanskrit musical terms = 15 out of 49
The number entries for gong, gendang, gendering are included as the contexts of their uses include nobat ensembles and others.
Dating Prose texts nobat tabal nafiri serunai nagara negara nenggara gong gendang genderang
1370s Hikayat Bayan Budiman 2
1380s Hikayat Amir Hamzah 2 6 4 2 * * *
1380s Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiah 5
1390s Hikayat Raja Pasai 2 2 3 * * *
1530s Hikayat Pandawa Lima * *
1530s Hikayat Seri Rama 2 2 *
1550s Hikayat Inderaputera 1 1 6 1 * * *
1600s Hikayat Sang Boma 1
1600s Hikayat Iskandar Zulkarnain 1 1 1
1600s Spraek ende Woord-Boek 3 3
1600s Taj al-Salatin (Roorda) 1
1610s Sejarah Melayu 4 3 2 1 1 * *
1620s Hikayat Aceh 1 1 2 *
1620s Cerita Kutai * *
1650s Hikayat Bakhtiar 1
1700s Hikayat Hang Tuah 1 7 5 6 5 * *
1700s Asal Bangsa Jin & Dewa-Dewa 3 1 * * *
1710s Hikayat Sang Bima 1 1
1720s Hikayat Syah Mardan 1 * *
1730s Hikayat Patani 14 11 9 2 3 *
1750s Hikayat Putera Jaya Pati 1
1750s Hikayat Panji Kuda Semirang 1
1750s Surat al-Anbiya’ 1 1 1
1780s Misa Melayu 1 6 13 8 6 * *
1760s Bo´ Sangaji Ki 3 2 * *
1790s Hikayat Hasanuddin 1
1800s Hikayat Raja Bikrama Sakti 1 1 8 *
1800s Hikayat Ali Bad Syah 2 2 2
1810s Hikayat Perintah Negeri Benggala 2 2
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