Western Musicologist on Hindustani Music

Dr. Lovely Sharma has taken enormous pain in collecting information on western musicologists. She has traveled far and wide, interviewed musicologists, studied their books and websites. It was a challenging task. In spite of many difficulties, she has managed to collect abundant information about the musicologists and their work through interviews and extensive meetings. The information given in this book is authentic.The richness of Hindustani classical music has attracted many western musicologists. They studied Hindustani music minutely and their exposition was clear and transparent. Their work on Indian classical music is not only popular in western countries but considered very important in India too and therefore has been translated into different western languages. Alean Denelou was the first musicologist of 20 century who has done pioneering work on Hindustani classical music. Another western musicologist Selina Theleman (Selina Sharma) has written valuable books on Hindustani Classical music. Western musicologists have done extensive work on ethnomusicology, history of Indian music, different forms of Indian music, instrumental music, and Vedic music. They have also compiled and edited works of other musicologists and have translated many Sanskrit and Urdu books concerned with Indian classical music. The present work on the contribution of western musicologists is first of its kind, which will become a reference book for music lovers, researchers and teachers.