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This work describes how the discipline Ethnomusicology is a study of intercultural musicology. The history, theory and methodology of Ethnomusicology, the emergence of Ethnomusicology in India, the intercultural aspects in the scholastic and performing traditions in the music’s and theatres in Asia are dealt with to high light that Ethnomusicology is primarily a study of intercultural Musicology. This is the first work written by a non-western Ethnomusicologist ...
This work is the first of its kind in India to deal with the subject of Indian Music in the socio-cultural perspective. The author describes the Indian Music Scenario in the Post-Independence period highlighting the changes from the pre-independence period in the areas of patronage, performance and pursuit of academic studies. An attempt has been made in the Golden Jubilee year of Independence to corelate the political and socio-cultural changes in the past fifty ...
This book discusses the history and origins of the term and form Sangitaka of the post Bharata period. It examines the suitability of the term ‘opera’ to define the Sangitaka and establishes a distinction between the opera in the west and Sangitanatakam of South India. The work deals not only with traditional theatres and operas of South India but also of North India. The book is the first work to deal with the music contents of the traditional theatres of ...
This work is the first of its kind in India to deal with the subject of Research methodology for Music studies in general and scientific methodology for music research. The author speaks about the concept of scientific methodology from the time of Bharata in his Natyasastra, and the Tantrayukti-s mentioned in our Sastra-s besides prescribing the use of the methodological tools and techniques which are available for the present day research scholars with the ...
This book is the only book of its kind written on voice-culture for singers in English. Dr. Durga has done extensive research on the scientific methods of voice training in India and USA. She, being a performer herself of Indian Classical Music, has included in the book valuable solutions to eradicate common functional disorders, and detailed analysis of the Physiological, physics and psychological aspects of the voice as musical instrument. "An important ...