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# The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan

History of Indian music, Sanskrit treatises, scales, rāgas, tālas, notation, and a descriptive catalogue of instruments with colour plates.

- **Language:** English
- **Author:** [C. R. Day](https://indike.org/pramana/person/day-cr)
- **Extent:** 1,107 passages, 56,499 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · London/New York: Novello, Ewer & Co. 1891; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (C. R. Day †1900); published before 1931: public domain…

## Contents

- [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c1) — 25 parts
- [c2 List of Illustrations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c2) — 1 part
- [c3 Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c3) — 8 parts
- [c4 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c4) — 10 parts
- [c5 Chapter I](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c5) — 48 parts
- [c6 Chapter II](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c6) — 119 parts
- [c7 Chapter III](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c7) — 95 parts
- [c8 Chapter IV](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c8) — 129 parts
- [c9 Chapter V](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c9) — 210 parts
- [c10 Chapter VI](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c10) — 39 parts
- [c11 Chapter VII](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c11) — 263 parts
- [c12 Chapter VIII](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c12) — 126 parts
- [c13 Appendix](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c13) — 1 part

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