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Imaging Sound
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 534

Imaging Sound

  • Categories: Art

The rulers of the Mughal Empire of India, who reigned from 1526 to 1858, spared no expense as patrons of the arts, particularly painting and music. They left as their legacy an extraordinarily rich body of commissioned artistic projects including illustrated manuscripts and miniature paintings that represent musical instruments, portraits of musicians, and the compositions of ensembles. These images from the basis of Bonnie C. Wade's study of how musicians of Hindustan encountered and Indianized music from the Persian cultural sphere. Combining ethnomusicological and art historical methods with history and lore, Wade has written a truly interdisciplinary study of cultural life on the Indian ...

Harps and Harpists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Harps and Harpists

Revising her classic 1989 book Harps and Harpists, Roslyn Rensch expands her authoritative history of this timeless instrument. This lavishly illustrated edition, with 137 black-and-white images and 24 color plates, surveys the progress of the harp from antiquity to the present day. The new edition includes two new chapters; an extensive bibliography and index; personal anecdotes of the author's studies under Alberto Salvi; and an appendix on the Roslyn Rensch Papers and Harp Collection, which are housed at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign.

The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 652

The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 2

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-02-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music comprises two volumes, and can only be purchased as the two-volume set. To purchase the set please go to: http://www.routledge.com/9780415972932

The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 652

The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The critical importance of past for the present--of music histories in local and global forms--asserts itself. The history of world music, as each chapter makes clear, is one of critical moments and paradigm shifts.

Nagarjunakonda A Cultural Study
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 412

Nagarjunakonda A Cultural Study

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Imago Musicae
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Imago Musicae

  • Categories: Art

Each volume in this series for the study of pictorial documents on musical subjects contains articles, a catalog (published in installments) devoted to the complete documentation of specific sources, and an annual bibliography that bridges the gap between the bibliographies in art history and musicology.

Kathakalaksepa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

Kathakalaksepa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Study of monodrama (Kathakalaksepa or Harikatha) a form of story-exposition incorporated with music and humor, and assisted by musicians and instrumentalists, in South India; with special reference to Tamil Nadu.

The Radical Humanist
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 544

The Radical Humanist

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Indica
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Indica

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1981
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia : the Indian subcontinent
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1126

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia : the Indian subcontinent

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.