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The present book 'Karnataka Sangita Sastra' was originally written in Tamil and so great was Iyer's enthusiasm that he wrote the entire book of 160 pages in his own handwriting and got it printed by the offset process. The work covers the entire gamut of musical theory from a general article on Indian music to a detailed description of the various technical aspects of Carnatic music like Grama, Srutis, Tala, Raga lakshanas, the 72 Melakartas and ...
This book consists of 25 compositions of Thiyaraja, Deekshithar, Syama Sastrigal, Patnam Subramania iyer, Meesu Krishna iyer, Kshethragnya, Dharmapuri Subbarayar, Thiruvottriyur Thiyaga iyer, Ramalinga Swamy, Gopalakrishna Bharathi, Sree Vatsa, and Arunagirinadar. In order to learn these compositions easily, each count of the thala is appropriately fitted with four swaras, which required space, and hyphens between each group of swaras, to easily understand the ...