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The Grammar of Carnatic Music.
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 desc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008.
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| Series: | Phonology & Phonetics, v. 8.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
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.