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Music and Musical Thought in Early India (Paperback)
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Music and Musical Thought in Early India (Paperback)
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
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Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and
aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study
makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient
foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs
the tunings, scales, modes, rhythms, gestures, formal patterns, and
genres of Indian music from Vedic times to the thirteenth century,
presenting not so much a history as a thematic analysis and
interpretation of India's magnificent musical heritage.
In Indian culture, music forms an integral part of a broad
framework of ideas that includes philosophy, cosmology, religion,
literature, and science. Rowell works with the known theoretical
treatises and the oral tradition in an effort to place the
technical details of musical practice in their full cultural
context. Many quotations from the original Sanskrit appear here in
English translation for the first time, and the necessary technical
information is presented in terms accessible to the nonspecialist.
These features, combined with Rowell's glossary of Sanskrit terms
and extensive bibliography, make "Music and Musical Thought in
Early India" an excellent introduction for the general reader and
an indispensable reference for ethnomusicologists, historical
musicologists, music theorists, and Indologists.
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