The Music Master: Portrait Of The rudra Vina maestro Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar

695
This book is a portrait of a music master who attained spiritual realisation through music and who could guide his

Srutipada Sarita: Musical Notations Of Traditional and Self Made Dhrupad Compositions

750
The treatise is a well-assorted collection of Dhrupad-Dhamar songs. These are musical notation of traditional Song-texts from the Dagar Oral

Drama And Ritual of Early Hinduism

495
The origin of Sanskrit drama has interested scholars for a long time as crucial for our understanding of the many

Introduction To The Study of Musical Scales

950
This book, Introduction to the Study of Musical Scales by Alain Danielou describes man’s unending quest for the right musical

The Musical Heritage Of India

795
This book is an epitome of the origin and evolution of Indian music from Vedic to modern film music with special referenece to Hindustani music.

Abhinaya Darpanam

995
Dance studies across genres require multiple approaches for an understanding of the sociological, phenomenological, political, cultural, philosophical and aesthetical practices that influences the dance's kinesthetic and existential character. In the context of Bharatanatyam, the moment of explaining shifting ideologies and its impact on the form, content and process, is a moment of convergence.

The Music of India

600
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.

Universal History of Music

395
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.

Khayal Vocalism

460
Khayal Vocalism: Continuity Within Change presents stylistic perspectives on the music nineteen modern and contemporary Khayal vocalists, representing various legacies which