“Every so often an overlooked work will surface and need placement within the ranks of other historic publications on similar topics. Such a case can be made for Viaggio alle Indie Orientali of Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeus (1748-1806) in terms of its section on Indian music. . . . Included in a chapter about music, poetics, and architecture is a transcription in Western music notation of a devotional song fromthe Malabar Coast area, together with a transliteration of the Malayam text into Roman characters along with its Italian translation.”