Indian music, in its sojourn in space and time may be divided, in a historical perspective, into three phases: ancient, medieval, and modem. These may be regarded as ending approximately in the thirteenth century, eighteenth century and our own Times respectively. The present volume deals with such an evolution during the first Phase of Indian music, viz., the ancient.The present work endeavours to set forth the Conceptual evolution of two foundational and ...
The Musical Heritage of India attempts as an authentic presentation of Indian music in various aspects. In books on Indian music, especially Hindustani music with their forms, scale and raga, etc., have been chosen as a particular topics and those books delineated only on them either a little fancifully or a little too literally. But this book gives not only the musicological background but also the predominantly musical content involved in the forms, aesthetics, ...