Vijayakrishnan The Grammar of Carnatic Music

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019888-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vijayakrishnan, K.G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Table of Contents;7
3;Acknowledgements;9
4;Foreword;11
5;Chapter 1. Introduction;17
6;Chapter 2. Language and (Carnatic) music;30
7;Chapter 3. Issues in modeling the grammar: Language and Carnatic music;53
8;Chapter 4. Conversion of pitch values to notes;89
9;Chapter 5. Representation of the musical line;120
10;Chapter 6. Construing meaning in Carnatic music: Determining grammaticality;155
11;Chapter 7. Construing meaning in Carnatic music: Style/stylistic issues;196
12;Chapter 8. The lexicon of Carnatic music;245
13;Chapter 9. Accounting for variation in Carnatic music;283
14;Backmatter;312

Über Autor(innen)

K.G.Vijayakrishnan, Central Institute of English Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India.