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The Form and Function of Music In Ancient India: A Historical Study (In Two Volumes)

Door Swami Prajnanananda

Categorie
Algemeen Muziek
Boeknummer
#387105-UG13
Titel
The Form and Function of Music In Ancient India: A Historical Study (In Two Volumes)
Auteur
Prajnanananda, Swami
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Calcutta : Ramakrishna Vedanta Math
Jaar van uitgave
1989
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original red boards, dust jacket, 291+255 pages, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Music And Music-Materials of Ancient India have paved the glorious path of the epitome of art and culture of Indian Music. Music can be divided into two phases, art and culture, and these two phases are fashioned or created by different races or tribes who inhabit the soil of India by dint of their daily habits of works and doings, motivated by their intellects and intuitions. Really men are the fruits of different societies, as they design and fashion many plans, skills and activities to enrich them in the fields of cultures and civilization. Music is one of the materials of education that can develop peoples' ideas of high living and high culture and high standards of aesthetic feeling and enjoying, thus helping them in progressing toward the perfection of their lives as well as their so... (Lees verder)cieties, in which they live or have their beings.

It is commonly said that morning shows the day, which means that if the peoples of the societies can reap the best harvest in the first phase of their life i. e. the childhood, they can surely make the remaining days of life fruitful and beautiful. So the Indian peoples look back to the prosperous days of their cultural past and thus try to march forward for making their remaining days bright and worthful. Now, if we look behind the pages of the history of music, we find that in the Vedic and post-Vedic time I the ages of the Natyasastra of Muni Narada and Bharata, the vedic and the gandharva types of music have left behind them a brightful legacy which inspired and energized them to create many beautiful things, i. e. and strives. The different prabandha-types of music, druvapada, kheyal, thumri and others have enriched the artistic levels and lives of the peoples not only of India but ignored and despired, rather
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Conditie
Redelijk — Tears in dust jacket repaired with tape, stamp on endpapers and half title page, edges dust jacket slightly worn. Stains verso dust jacket volume one.
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€ 40,00

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