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Time in Indian Music is the first major study of rhythm, metre, and form in North Indian rag, or classical, music. Martin Clayton presents a theoretical model for the organization of time in this repertory, a model which is related explicitly to other spheres of Indian thought and culture as well as to current ideas on musical time in alternative repertories—including that of Western music. This theoretical model is elucidated and illustrated with reference to ...
'Music, Time and Place' is a collection of interlinked essays which deal with a wide range of issues concerning both Indian and Western music and musical thought. The essays are organised in three main sections. The first, 'Time and rhythm', discusses a number of interrelated questions concerning the organisation of music in time. The next section concerns the history of comparative musicology, early sound recording, particularly A. H. Fox Strangways' classic ...