Music and Musical Thought in Early IndiaUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 d’oct. 1992 - 409 pàgines 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. |
Continguts
CONTENTS | 16 |
THOUGHT | 23 |
SOUND | 35 |
CHANT | 56 |
5 | 88 |
SASTRA | 119 |
PITCH | 144 |
TIME | 180 |
FORM | 225 |
SONG | 269 |
STYLE | 295 |
AFTERTHOUGHTS | 338 |
GLOSSARY OF SANSKRIT TERMS | 381 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 387 |
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Abhinavagupta accents ākāśa ancient Indian angas ātman authors basic beginning Bharata chant chapter color components concept consonant cultural dance Dattilam distinctions drama drum durations emotional Ethnomusicology exposition final formal four gamakas genre gestures grāmarāgas gunas hexatonic Indian music Indian thought individual instruments intervals jātis kalā Kālidāsa later literature manifested Matanga's mātrās means medieval melodic melody types meter metrical musical sound musical system musical thought musicians nāda notation octave organization ornaments pādas passage patterns performance phonetic pitch play poetic prabandha practice rāga rasa recitation reference Ṛgveda rhythm rhythmic ritual role Samaveda Sanskrit śāstra scale degrees sense sequence Śiva song specific speech śrutis stage sthāyas structure style svaras syllables symbolic tāla tempo theater theory tion tonal tone topics tradition translation treatises tuning types udatta University Upanishads various Vedas Vedic Vedic accents verse vina vocal word