The Rāgas of Early Indian Music: Modes, Melodies, and Musical Notations from the Gupta Period to C. 1250

ISBN-13: 9780193154643 / Twarda / 1996 / 448 str.

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Opis

The concept of raga forms the basis of melodic composition and improvization in Indian classical music. This study 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.

Recenzje

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.