[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935) › c11.14 # Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c11.14 Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c11.14 - **Language:** English ### [c11.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c11.14) (1) E. Sachau, “Alberuni’s India,” London, 1910, p. 195. (2) “Ek patra yav khadkhadāye, ham bhāge simhal ka dvīp| Suṅke terā venusvara merā śir diyā vakśīs|| Sing necke kouḍi karanā mās payāyke khāo| Cāmdā leke āsan kijiye venukā svar sunāo”|| (3) Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of Boston Museum, Rajput The practice of visualising musical compositions in pictorial forms is no more confined to India. During the last few years a few European artists have made attempts to set down famous master-pieces of music into visualized pictures. The "Twenty-four Preludes" of Chopin have received pictorial interpretations by Robert Spies, an English artist.¹ A few years earlier, Miss Pamela Colman Smith exhibited in London, a series of pictorial drawings, interpreting famous musical pieces, which included Panderwski's "Chant du Voyage", Chopin's "Prelude No. 4", César Franck's "Symphony", Schumann's "Kinder-scenen" and Debussy's "Granada", and other pieces.² Yet, another series of illustrations of musical master-pieces were exhibited by Miss Juliet Williams at the Aeolian Hall in 1926, which included visualized versions of Bach's 'Concerto in E', Chopin's "Berceuse", Debussy's "L'Après-midi d'un Faune", and Borodin's "Unfinished Symphony."³ - [Previous: c11.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c11.13) - [Next: c11.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c11.15) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c11.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c11.14) · Pramāṇa