Music and Musical Thought in Early IndiaUniversity of Chicago Press, 25 de des. 2015 - 428 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. |
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2 Thought | 23 |
3 Sound | 35 |
4 Chant | 56 |
5 Theater | 91 |
6 Śastra | 119 |
7 Pitch | 144 |
9 Form | 225 |
10 Song | 269 |
11 Style | 295 |
12 Afterthoughts | 338 |
Notes | 345 |
Glossary of Sanskrit Terms | 381 |
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Abhinavagupta accents amsa ancient Indian angas audible authors beginning Bharata Brahmā Brhaddesi caesura chant chapter components composition concept cultural dance Dattilam desi tālas distinctive dosas drama drum durations early Indian music emotional ethnomusicology exposition final formal four gamakas ganas genre gestures grâmarãgas gunas hexatonic Indian music instruments jātis kalā later literature manifested marga means medieval melodic meter metrical music of India musical sound musical thought notation octave organization ornaments passage patterns performance phonetic pitch play poetic prabandha practice rāga rasa recitation reference repertoire rhythm rhythmic ritual role Sangita-Ratnākara Sanskrit scale degrees sense sequence song specific Śrutis sthāyas structure style svaras swaras syllables symbolic tala tälas tempo theater theory tion tonal tone topics tradition translation treatises types typical udatta University Upanisad various Vedas Vedic Vedic accents verse versions vocal word