Music and Musical Thought in Early India

by Lewis Eugene Rowell

Book Overview

Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs the tunings, scales, modes, rhythms, gestures, formal patterns, and genres of Indian music from Vedic times to the thirteenth century, presenting not so much a history as a thematic analysis and interpretation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226730336
• ISBN13: 9780226730332
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"