Hindustani Music: Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788173047589
Length
736p., Tables; Illustrations; Figures; Bibliograpgy; Index; 25cm.
Subjects
North Indian or Hindustani art music has a wealth of vocal genres and instrumental styles. Some of them rooted in the past and others of a more recent origin. Although Indian music is primarily an oral tradition, it has a long practice of written music theory. Through dozens of musicological treatises and other historical documents we know that changes in patronage and musical taste have had a profound effect on ragas, talas, style and repertoire.This ...
