There have been excellent books from ancient days on musicology, the theory of music. There are biographies of a few celebrated composers and musicians. There are some publications with a collection of more than one or two biographies. Revered Subbarama Dikshitar in his comprehensive presentation titled 'Sangita Sampradaya Pradarsini' did bring out brief facts of seventy-seven lives. Abraham Pandithar in his Karnamrta Sagaram and later Prof. P. Sambamurthi have ...