The Ragas of Early Indian Music: Modes, Melodies, and Musical Notations from the Gupta Period to c. 1250...

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Richard Widdess (Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology with reference to South Asia, Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology with reference to South Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies, London)

The Ragas of Early Indian Music

Modes, Melodies, and Musical Notations from the Gupta Period to c. 1250

Richard Widdess (Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology with reference to South Asia, Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology with reference to South Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies, London)

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English

Clarendon Press
14 December 1995

Theory of music & musicology; Early music (up to c 1000 CE); Folk & traditional music

Series: Oxford Monographs on Music

The concept of raga, the traditional basis of melodic composition and improvisation in Indian classical music, has become familiar to listeners and musicologists throughout the world, but its historial origins and early development have been little explored.

This book draws on written documents from the pre-Islamic period in India, including musical treatises (expecially that of the thirteenth-century theorist, Sarngadeva), literary works, and a remarkable inscription comprising musical notation.

These documents bear witness to the development of the earlies ragas, which they name, classify, define, and in some cases illustrate with melodic examples.

The melodies, which have not previously been studied in detail, for the focus of the book, which analyses their notation, musical structure and relationship to the theoretical tradition in which they are embedded, as evidence for the early history of melodic compostion and improvisation in the Indian tradition.

Dr Widdess's comprehensive treatment of his subject will be of interest to musicologists and ethnomusicologists, particularly those concerned with music theory, mode and monody, and improvisation, and also Sanskritists and other Indologists.

By: Richard Widdess (Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology with reference to South Asia Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology with reference to South Asia School of Oriental and African Studies London)
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 255mm, Width: 197mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 1.172kg
ISBN: 9780193154643
ISBN 10: 0193154641
Series: Oxford Monographs on Music
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 14 December 1995
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Ragas of Early Indian Music: Modes, Melodies, and Musical Notations from the Gupta Period to c. 1250

Richard Widdess' magnificent and painstaking study provides us with details of the emergence and metamorphosis of the raga system, and...may be viewed as a huge and indispensable piece of the puzzle...This is a beautifully presented volume, elegantly and expressively wirtten, meticulous in every aspect of musicological detail. --Journal of the American Oriental Society<br>