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The role of Maharaja Swati Tirunal is highly noteworthy in the development of Indian Music in general and Carnatic music in particular. He also stands supreme among the composer-musicians in the annals of the cultural history of Kerala. It is he who modeled the musical setting in the extreme south during the 18th and 19th centuries even as the musical Trinity – Sri Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Syama Sastri did in the Cauvery delta and adjoining areas. ...
From the evidence contained in the creative literature, texts and manuals, sculptural reliefs, architectural monuments, inscriptional and epigraphical records etc, it is obvious that music flourished at all levels of the society and also that each region was culturally related to other regions far and near. And yet notwithstanding these inter-relationships and mutual borrowings, some regions because of political events, some because of migration from other parts ...
A study on the Royal Contribution and patronage to Indian music, which happens to be the major theme of this volume is attempted perhaps for the first time now in a comprehensive manner. The period of study ranges from 2nd B.C. to the present century covering most of the regions of India, Contributions of more than seventy royal scholars and patrons have been taken up in this work like Chikkadearaja Wodeyar, Ettendra Maharaja, Govinda dikshita, Haripala, ...
The subject matter in many books and articles which have appeared in different journals and souvenirs over the past few dacades represent comprehensive research-oriented studies embracing various facets of music. But there is no publication which deals under one cover with the life styles and contribitions of the great composers who have made Indian music what it is today. The present volume is an attempt to fill this lacuna. There are altogether the biographies ...
Usually books on Indian Music and Dance that are written in India are most technical in nature and are, therefore, difficult for lay people to follow. As such this volume of compilation which is the third volume in the series, again, provide the general reader as well as lovers of music valuable and interesting information on the subject. The articles in this book represents a compilation of a wide range of articles on music by various authorities in the subject, ...