Historical Development of Indian Music: A Critical Study c8.59
Historical Development of Indian Music: A Critical Study c8.59
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c8.59
About the close of the thirteenth century, Āmir Khasrau, the Persian Poet and court-musician of Sulṭān Ālā-ud-din devised some new types of melody and musical instruments. He introduced some Persian scales and melodies and some of the *Qawālī* type of regional songs, in Indian classical stock.