Historical Development of Indian Music: A Critical Study
Sāman chant, gāndharva, jāti and grāma-mūrchanā systems, deśī music, rāga history through the Saṅgītaratnākara and later treatises.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Swami Prajnanananda
- Extent
- 1,478 passages, 93,860 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Calcutta: Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay 1960; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and… · In copyright (Swami Prajnanananda †1998); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 33 parts
- c2 Preface — 23 parts
- c3 Foreword — 9 parts
- c4 Contents — 38 parts
- c5 Prelude — 3 parts
- c6 Chapter One: Historical Method in the Study of Music — 20 parts
- c7 Chapter Two: What is Indian Music — 54 parts
- c8 Chapter Three: Evolution of Indian Music — 68 parts
- c9 Chapter Four: Evolution of Rāga — 221 parts
- c10 Chapter Five: Development of Rāga Vasanta — 69 parts
- c11 Chapter Six: Evolution of Music-Parts or Dhātus — 76 parts
- c12 Chapter Seven — 2 parts
- c13 Chapter Eight: Development of Padāvalī-Kīrtana of Bengal — 226 parts
- c14 Chapter Nine — 55 parts
- c15 Chapter Ten — 68 parts
- c16 Chapter Eleven: Ideal of Indian Music — 22 parts
- c17 Appendix: Development of Notes and Scales of Vedic Music — 35 parts
- c18 Bibliography — 115 parts
- c19 Index — 96 parts
- c20 Notes — 4 parts
- c21 Errata — 51 parts