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Title |
THEORY OF MUSIC IN CLASSICAL TAMIL |
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Author |
AMUTHA PANDIAN |
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Publisher |
Chennai: Central Institute of Classical Tamil |
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Publish Year |
2024 |
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Language |
English |
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Book ISBN |
978-81-970851-1-6 |
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Number of Pages |
222 |
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Book Price |
Rs.350.00 |
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About the Book:- |
Art forms are born of basic human sensibilities, out of the urge to express human sentiments and develop with the cultural practices of the place. For a long time, South Indian music has been supposed to be the product of the Sanskrit culture, and its roots are traced to the Sama Veda. However, the theories of this system of music, found in Sanskrit works, have baffled musicians and musicologists from the early days. The Vedas, the earliest religious texts, deny the practice of performing arts in their followers. Later Natya Sastra prescribes a ready-made body of formulations for music and dance without acknowledging a tradition. The Natya Sastra and Sańkita Ratnakara do not scientifically explain music. Scientist-musicians since the beginning of the eighteenth century have been puzzled at the incongruity between the theories of Carnatic music in the Sanskrit texts and its performance. The European and Indian musicologists could not form a concrete music theory from these works. The practitioners argue that Indian music cannot be explained in scientific terms, and questioning its scientific base is to vandalise it since it is from and of the gods. The history of the growth of music in India is mired in myths and legends, and the artists and musicologists give it an esoteric twist and colouring. |
