Music (General)
Sitar and Its Music
Sitar and Its Music is a revised and enlarged edition of a much sought after reference book on instrumental music, appeared as Sitar and its Techniques, in 1981. It is a serious attempt to convey the basic principles and allied information on sitar and its music, keeping in mind its absolute usefulness for the students who want to learn sitar and our great tradition.The book vividly deals with gharana, especially its contribution to the existing and traditional Indian classical music.
The Art of Tabla Rhythm
This authoritative work deals comprehensively with Tabla rhythm, focusing, if in brief, on its history and aesthetics. It is aimed at the Tabla student, the Tabla performer, as well as the inquiring listener of Hindustani music, for whom it encapsulates a Tabla practitioner's knowledge acquired over a lifetime of learning and teaching.
The Grammar of Carnatic Music
This book argues that Carnatic music as it is practiced today can be traced to the musical practices of early/mid-eighteenth century. Earlier varieties or ''incarnations'' of Indian music elaborately described in many musical treatises are only of historical relevance today as the music described is quite different from current practices.
The Music of India
This is an attempt to bring, to bear a ''scientific'' attitude to Indian musicological problems. Tools and methods of modern science have been employed to probe into musical phenomena and Indian music history. No other term is perhaps so operatively basic as the tonic-drone in melodic music and today the tambura is the most important drone in Indian music. Importance of the emergence of the drone in Indian music history has been discussed at length, in terms of neuro-physiological dynamics.
The Musician and His Art
In this book, the author relentlessly pursues his intellectual aims by borrowing ideas from a wide range of disciplines : sociology, linguistics, cultural anthropology, acoustics, aesthetics, demography, economics, marketing finance, psycho-analysis, mythology, philosophy and even mathematics. Despite its diverse intellectual canvas, the book retains the essential ''Indian-ness'' of the author's argument, and simultaneously addresses an international readership.
The Origin of Raga
An attempt has been made to trace out the most popular and common term 'raga', its origin, techniques and also the course of its development from the Vedic period to this modern age of science. It also narrates raga in actual forms and its development through ancient and medieval times and as it is practised and performed by musicians of the present times. The style of expression is easy to understand and didactic.
The Ragas of Northern Indian Music
The first part of the book traces the history of Indian music and the continuity of its theory and practice for more than two thousand years. It is based on many years' research into the vast ancient Sanskrit literature of music. These valuable technical treatises, which lie in the form of scarcely catalogued manuscripts throughout the public and private libraries of India, had hitherto remained unemplored. Part Two transcribes and studies in detail fifty typical Raga-s. Each is preceded by a Sanskrit poem in translation which depicts the atmosphere; then follows an analysis of the scale, covering its intervals and expression, a study of the theme with its characteristic motives and finally a typical development.
The Science of Indian Music
The Story of Indian Music and Its Instruments
Universal History of Music
Music pervades all nature. There is nothing in nature that arouses our attention of effects our feelings so quickly as a sound. The book furnishes an account of the music of various nations-civilized to uncivilized, on the faces of the habitable globe. A few facts concerning Hindu music are given a place in the Appendix.
भारतीय संगीत का इतिहास
प्रस्तुत ग्रन्थ भारतीय संगीत का इतिहास अपने आप में असाधारण शोध-ग्रन्थ है. इसके लेखक डॉक्टर ठाकुर जयदेव सिंह बहु-आयामी व्यक्तित्व के विद्वान् थे. संगीतशास्त्र की सुविख्यात विदुषी प्रोफ. प्रेमलता शर्मा द्वारा सम्पादित इस ग्रन्थ को कोलकाता की संगीत रिसर्च अकादमी ने सन `१९९४ ईस्वी में संगीत परिदर्शिनी ग्रंथमाला के प्रथम पुष्प के रूप में प्रकाशित किया था. भारतीय संगीत क्षेत्र का अपने ढंग का पहला अनूठा ग्रन्थ है.
संगीत विमर्श
पुस्तक के पच्चीस अध्यायों को पच्चीस शोध के रूप में देखा जा सकता है. संगीत के प्राचीन और मह्त्त्वपूर्ण आकर ग्रंथों पर आगम के प्रभाव पर कभी गहन शोध नहीं हुआ, न ही इस ढंग से विस्तृत विचार हुआ की संगीत और आगम में परस्पर अतयंतिक सम्बन्ध है, या की इन परस्पर विमर्श आरम्भ हो. दो एक पुस्तकों में संक्षेप में इस पर चर्चा जरूर है.