Kirtana, traditional South Indian devotional songs : : compositions of Tyagaraja, Muttusvāmi Dīkṣita and Syama Sastri / / recorded and edited in staff notation by Emmie te Nijenhuis.

• Superior document: Handbook of oriental studies. Section 2, South Asia ; v. 26
• TeilnehmendeR: Nijenhuis, Emmie te.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia 26.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 302 pages).

At the beginning of the nineteenth century South Indian composers were still influenced by traditional religious concepts such as: temple rituals, pilgrimage and personal devotion. Tyāgarāja, Muttusvāmi Dīkṣitar and Śyāma Śāstri, the three prominent composers from the Tanjore district, used the kīrt...