[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative) › c15.21 # A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c15.21 A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c15.21 - **Language:** English ### [c15.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c15.21) I propose now to complete this long discourse, I have in the foregoing portion touched in a succinct way the sruti, swara, raga, and thata portions of about 16 treatises My object in this has been, as I said, to show that by a study of the ancient works, we will be in a position to effect certain very beneficial results so far as our present music is concerned I have, therefore, explained which our old books are, which of them are available, and where, and what the system shown in them is, I now propose to show how the study of these is of practical use to us. - [Previous: c15.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c15.20) - [Next: c15.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c15.22) - [Up: c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c15) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c15.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.bhatkhande-comparative.c15.21) · Pramāṇa