Music and Musical Thought in Early India

by Lewis Eugene Rowell

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226730336

ISBN13:9780226730332

Release Date:December 2015

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:432 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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