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Indian Music--Eminent Thinkers on Core Issues. Discourses by Premlata Sharma, S. K. Saxena, and Kapila Vatsyayana.

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Publication Date: 01-SEP-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1161 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Indian Music--Eminent Thinkers on Core Issues. Discourses by Premlata Sharma, S. K. Saxena, and Kapila Vatsyayana.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Edited by R. C. Mehta. Mumbai: Indian Musicological Society, 2002. [113 p. $15.]

This set of essays by three senior North Indian musicologists is based on lectures which they presented in Mumbai and Delhi in 1992, 1998, and 2000. The lecture series honoring Vishnu Narayan Bhatkbande (18611-1936), the early-twentieth-century systematizer of North Indian music theory, was organized by the Indian Musicological Society and its director, R. C. Mehta. People familiar with writings on North Indian music theory and criticism in the last several decades will recognize these scholars' names. For the most part, it is this audience which will find this book of interest. Avid listeners to Indian music might also find portions of these essays enjoyable and thought provoking. The use of technical terms, however, and the intimate insiders' perspectives offered here will make the book a difficult one lot nonspecialist readers.

Premlata Sharma was known for her works on Sanskrit musicological texts, and mentored many scholars during her decades at Banaras Hindu University. In her series of short linked...

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