The Music of Hindostan
Scales, śrutis, grāmas, rāgas, tālas, forms, instruments, history and Sanskrit theory, with transcriptions of songs collected in India.
- Language
- English
- Author
- A. H. Fox Strangways
- Extent
- 2,556 passages, 95,534 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Oxford: Clarendon Press 1914; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by Gemini… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (A. H. Fox Strangways †1948); published before 1931:…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 4 parts
- c2 The Music of Hindostan — 6 parts
- c3 Preface — 9 parts
- c4 Table of Contents — 24 parts
- c5 List of Illustrations — 44 parts
- c6 Chapter I. A Musical Diary — 282 parts
- c7 Chapter II. A Musical Diary (continued) — 238 parts
- c8 Chapter III. Legend, History, and the Present Day — 11 parts
- c9 Chapter IV. The Scale — 30 parts
- c10 Chapter V. Mode — 139 parts
- c11 Chapter VI. Rāga — 248 parts
- c12 Chapter VII. Grace — 52 parts
- c13 Chapter VIII. Tāla — 6 parts
- c14 Chapter IX. Drumming — 105 parts
- c15 Chapter X. The Sāman Chant — 78 parts
- c16 Chapter XI. Form — 64 parts
- c17 Chapter XII. Melody — 169 parts
- c18 Appendix I — 13 parts
- c19 Appendix II — 2 parts
- c20 Bibliography of Works in European Languages — 11 parts
- c21 Glossary and Index — 53 parts