Author: K.G. Vijayakrishnan
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110198886
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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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 described is quite different from current practices. It is argued that earlier varieties may not have survived because they failed to meet the three crucial requirements for a language-like organism to survive i.e., a robust community of practitioners/listeners which the author calls the Carnatic Music Fraternity, a sizeable body of musical texts and a felt communicative need. In fact, the central thesis of the book is that Carnatic music, like language, survived and evolved from early/mid eighteenth century when these three requirements were met for the first time in the history of Indian music. The volume includes a foreword by Paul Kiparsky.

Author: Chandrasekhar Subrahmanya Ayyar
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Category : Carnatic music
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Author: Ludwig Pesch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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This Is An Indispensable And Enriching Reference Work For The Connoisseur, Practising Musician, Interested Amateur, Impresario Teacher And Student.

Author: Kristyn Purkerson
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Category : Carnatic music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: C. SUBRAHMAṆYA AIYAR
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Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Chandrasekhar Subrahmanya Ayyar
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Languages : en
Pages : 157

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Author: R. Rangaramanuja Iyengar
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Category : Carnatic music
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: Nirmalangshu Mukherji
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262291630
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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A proposal that the biolinguistic approach to human languages may have identified, beyond the study of language, a specific structure of the human mind. The contemporary discipline of biolinguistics is beginning to have the feel of scientific inquiry. Biolinguistics—especially the work of Noam Chomsky—suggests that the design of language may be “perfect”: language is an optimal solution to conditions of sound and meaning. What is the scope of this inquiry? Which aspect of nature does this science investigate? What is its relation to the rest of science? What notions of language and mind are under investigation? This book is a study of such foundational questions. Exploring Chomsky's claims, Nirmalangshu Mukherji argues that the significance of biolinguistic inquiry extends beyond the domain of language. Biolinguistics is primarily concerned with grammars that represent just the computational aspects of the mind/brain. This restriction to grammars, Mukherji argues, opens the possibility that the computational system of human language may be involved in each cognitive system that requires similar computational resources. Deploying analytical argumentation and empirical evidence, Mukherji suggests that a computational system of language consisting of very specific principles and operations is likely to be involved in each articulatory symbol system—such as music—that manifests unboundedness. In that sense, the biolinguistics approach may have identified, after thousands of years of inquiry, a specific structure of the human mind.

Author: Vimalakānta Rôya Caudhurī
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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On the scales and permutations and combinations in different Hindustani ragas; also includes musical letter notations on the ragas.

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