The Grammar of Carnatic Music / / K.G. Vijayakrishnan.

This book argues that Carnatic music as it is practiced today can be traced to the musical practices of early/ mid eighteenth century. Earlier varieties or 'incarnations' of Indian music elaborately described in many musical treatises are only of historical relevance today as the music des...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2007
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Phonology and Phonetics [PP] , 8
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Physical Description:1 online resource (342 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Language and (Carnatic) music
  • Chapter 3. Issues in modeling the grammar: Language
  • and Carnatic music
  • Chapter 4. Conversion of pitch values to
  • notes
  • Chapter 5. Representation of the musical
  • line
  • Chapter 6. Construing meaning in Carnatic music:
  • Determining grammaticality
  • Chapter 7. Construing meaning in Carnatic music:
  • Style/stylistic issues
  • Chapter 8. The lexicon of Carnatic music
  • Chapter 9. Accounting for variation in Carnatic
  • music
  • Backmatter