--------- This observation is not different from the emic perspective about RV -SV relation, except that the sequential older-later relation between the two is different from the simultaneity of RV-SV in the emic perspective.

 

>>The last statement goes counter to an observation elsewhere advocated in Discovering the Vedas: the universality of music vis à vis language. 

 

Could it be that 'language' in  "The words of the RV often do not fit and the melodies seem to reflect another language." is different from a human/natural speech/tongue, but is something like a composing  ?

 

So "The words of the RV often do not fit and the melodies seem to reflect another language" may mean that the saaman singing  employed for a certain mantra of RV does not match the meaning of the RV words. Something like a misfit music composing.

 

Even this is different from the emic perspective since in the simultaneity view, there can not be any misfit.

 

Presence of Dravidian or any words other than IE in the RV or any other Veda can be explained in terms of the influence of the language repertoire of the drashTA during the non-mantradars'ana state.

 

Can such an explanation be extended to the music/singing style repertoire of the drashTA too?

 

Then as you have pointed out , it will be in contradiction with the notion of universality of music.

 

It is better to take a consistent stance with regard to the languages and singing styles both.   

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