South Indian Music : Book 3/

Sambamoorthy, P.

South Indian Music : Book 3/ - Chennai : The Indian Music Publishing House, 2019. - 472 p. : ill. ;

In the seventh edition, the theoreticai portions have been further enlarged. Model Appreciation essays on six kritis of Tyagaraja have been added at the end. Some more technical terms have been explained in Chapter XII.



Topics like Analytical and Synthetic portrayal of Ragas in musical compositions and the utility of Sutra gitas are additions to this edition.



The book has been carefully revised and brought up-to-date.6 Volume Book.

Table of Contents I.

Raga

1

II.

The 72 Melakartas

32

III.

Janya Ragas : Computation

69

IV.

Raga Lakshana

79

V.

Ta1a

101

VI.

Musical Form

116

VII.

Musical Form (cond.)

185

VII.

Folk Music

225

IX.

Musica1 Instruments

247

X.

Sangita Mela- Orchestra

278

XI.

Musical Compositions (Lakshana gita and Tan varnas)

288

XII.

Technical Terms

308

XIII.

Description of Ragas

345



Appendix:





Arohana and Avarohana of Ragas

400



Questions

441



Musical Aphorism

445



Sutra Gitas

446



Model Appreciation Essays

447



Analytical and Synthetic portrayal of Ragas

469




Carnatic music.
Raga.

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