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The first edition of this book was sold out many years ago. For want of time, it was not possible to revise and publish an enlarged edition of this book, much earlier. The Chapters on Musical Appreciation (Chapter VII) and Musical Tests (Chapter X) have been enlarged. Chapter XIII dealing with the History of Musical education in South India and other topics is an addition to this Edition. The Appendix entitled Musical Code is also an ...
Though music is an art to be learnt through the aural sense, still knowledge of the facts, laws and phenomena relating to music can be imparted through visual media. The eye plays as important a part as the ear in the assimilation of facts relating to music. Seeing is learning.
Books written on the history of Indian music are few. Stray articles on the history of Indian music have appeared off and on in some journals. As far as South Indian music is concerned, no book dealing with its history has so far been written. Works on music written in Sanskrit and other Indian languages deal merely with the lakshana of the music of the respective periods. Brief biographical notes on some of the great composers and ...
This is the Concluding volume in the series of boks planned for the exposition of the Theory of South Indian Music in all its comprehensive aspects. South Indian Music in all its comprehensive aspects. South Indian music can stand on a par with western music in having an intelligent and well-developed system of musicology and which can bee studied at the highest levels. Some of the topics dealt with in this book appeared originally as articles contributed by the ...
A Regular Dictionary of South Indian Music and Musicians has been a long felt desideratum. The present work is a humble attempt to supply that want. For western music, there are such standard works as Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Oxford Companion to Music, the Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Music and Musicians and Riemann's Lexicon. No such ambitious work has so far been attempted for Indian music either in English or in the Indian languages. The ...