Ragas of Early Indian Music - Modes, Melodies, Musical Notations From Gupta Period to C. 1250

Zusatztext The subject presents an enormous challenge, and Widdess has met it impressively ... It is often difficult to make even conjectural sense of the data, and Widdess does a remarkably sane job under the circumstances ... Widdess shows it is possible to write beautifully and informatively in the total absence of recrimination and accusation, and the book is an excellent demonstration of the complete dispensability of the confrontational, aggressive, moral high-ground writing which has recently become so common in ethnomusicology. Zusammenfassung The concept of raga forms the basis of melodic composition and improvization in Indian classical music. This book traces the early history and development of the concept in the pre-Islamic period, It draws on early Indian theoretical sources, and focuses especially on the examples of notated melodies that they contain.

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• Authors: Richard Widdess, Richard (Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicolo Widdess, Widdess Richard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.1995
• EAN: 9780193154643
• ISBN: 978-0-19-315464-3
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Oxford Monographs on Music; Oxford Monographs on Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, India, Theory of music & musicology, Folk & traditional music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Folk, Folkloric styles, Theory of music and musicology, Traditional and folk music, Early Music (Up To C 1000 Ce)