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Alain Danielou: Sacred Music: Its Origins, Powers, and Future: Traditional Music in Today's World, Indica Books ,2004 ,Varanasi

What is modal music? Why did the ancients consider music the key of sciences, related to metaphysics? Are there many "musics", as there are many languages? Is there a relation between Indian music, jazz, cante jondo, Gregorian chant? How should we understand African music? and between music and magic, or therapy? This collection of texts, covering a wide range of subjects, concerns the amateur music lover as well as the professional musician. The renowned musicologist Alain Danielou explains here clearly and simply the profound concepts relating music to its essential roots.; Hardbound

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Swami Prajnanananda: A Historical Study of Indian Music, New Delhi, India Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2002 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 81-215-0177-6
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A Historical Study of Indian Music covers a wide range from the earliest historical traces of our music to the present day. At a time most historical studies degenerated into a mixture of pseudo-legendary and mythology with large doses of sentimentality and platitudes, but Swami Prajnanananda's scholarly approach is like a breath of fresh air. The learned author starts with the Vedic music, Gandharva music and ends with the Rabindra Sangit and Rabindranath Tagore's own theories. And apart from detailed and scientific analysis of music of every type of every age, he has explored practically every relevant field-ancient musical instruments, the nature of Indian and Western orchestra, and the chorus in ancient India, the septatantri-Veena in the Buddhist Caves, the concept of Raga, Aryan and non-Aryan theories, the origin and developments of Dhrupad, Kheyal, Bengali songs along with other musical types. The author has examined the close relationship that exists between music and dance and has thrown sufficient light on the problems of Acoustics, Aesthetics, both Indian and Western Psychology, Philosophy and Iconography of Indian music. The learned author has added four informative Appendices which will solve many knotty problems of music, both Indian and Western. The book is, therefore, a compendium and indispensable volume for the seeks of knowledge and experience. Printed Pages: 444. Reprint New Cloth 14 Cms x 22 Cms; Reprint

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A.H. Fox-Strangways: The Music of Hindostan, New Delhi, India Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 1994 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover ISBN: 81-215-0643-3
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The book is a scholarly treatise on the basic features, principles, and systems of Hindustani music. For the preparation of the book, the author has culled together the varied information on this vast subject from his own field-work and first-hand sources and has handled this difficult subject with rare acumen. He has described and discussed in great detail the Hindustani classical music and Indian folk music including its lesser-known aspects like bardic songs, lullabies, devotional songs and the like. In his view, in Indian music the element of melody is dominant as opposed to the element of harmony in the European. Strangways' work is not merely an adumbration of the theoretical aspects of Indian music but is an in-depth study illustrated by examples. He has very successfully been able to explain the nuances typical of Indian music. In the twelve chapters the author has, besides dealing with the scale, mode, raga, grace, tala, drumming, the saman chant, form and melody, also given introductory remarks describing the milieu of Indian music and the legendary and historical background of Indian music. This book will serve as an invaluable introductory work for those interested in Indian music. Along with the wide range of examples in each category of Indian music, the author has also explained and illustrated the material intelligible to the Western scholars. The book should prove to be of sustained interest both to experts and those interested in music. Printed Pages: 376 with 15 b/w illustrations and 2 tables. Second Indian Edition New Hardbound 14 Cms x 22 Cms; Second Indian Edition

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O.C. Gangoly: Ragas & Raginis: A Pictorial & Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes based on Original Sources, New Delhi, India Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2004 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 81-215-0473-2
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This is Professor O.C. Gangoly's magnum opus on a phase of the History of Indian Music-the origin and the development of Indian musical modes-picturesquely known as the Ragas and Raginis. The author makes accessible to the general reader as well as to the practitioners of fundamental importance not only for the study of Indian achievements in the sphere of Music-but also for the future development of one of the greatest contributions made by India to the culture of the world. Music occupies the foremost position in the development of National Culture. Greater knowledge of the past history and of the lines of development of Indian Music, is therefore, necessary not only on the part of the expert exponent-but also on the part of the expert listener, the future connoisseur and patron of Indian Music. This exhaustive survey of the development of Indian Melodies from the Vedic Period to the time of Rabindra Nath Tagore-brings under focus fundamental data bearing on the theory of the Art and the stages of its development. The chapter on the History of Ragas, a large mass of materials hitherto imbedded in obscure and unpublished MSS have been dug up and set forth in a historical sequence-revealing a fascinating story of the growth and development of the Melodies. The peculiar theories governing the principles of Indian Music are set forth with remarkable ingenuity and scholarship from the hitherto unexplored sources. Apart from the data essential for the correct understanding of Indian Music Theories, the researches embodied in this volume have revealed surprising materials for the study of the mythology and iconography of Indian Music and connecting links which intimately bind together the masterpieces of musical and pictorial art. This indeed is a very revealing chapter in the history of Indian culture itself. For it was never realized earlier-as to what extent musical culture has offered valuable materials for the development of Indian Paintings and to what extent the Indian Pictorial Artist has collaborated in disseminating and vulgarizing fundamental concepts, some times of extremely abstruse mystical significance, for the apprehension of the general public in an easily accessible and graphic form. These pictorial data will help to analyse the fundamental emotive character-the ethos of each Raga-so that the practitioner should not use indiscriminately any pattern of Indian Melody-except to express its appropriate emotive concept. The most valuable data offered in this volume is the carefully collected material bearing on the history of the classification of the Ragas set out in a series of appendices-which themselves offer a complete map of the History of Indian Music. Printed Pages: 232 with 8 b/w illustrations. Reprint New Hardcover 19 Cms x 25 Cms; Reprint

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