Ram Avtar

The table of contents looked very promising - medieval musical education, the two systems of Indian music, tala - the system of counting time, sympathetic notes, and regular notes. Largely stuff I haven't read much about before. Unfortunately, it's hard to read it here. The book is written in "Hinglish" - English written by and for folks who also speak Hindi. It also doesn't give much technical information - it usually just lists words, without doing much in the way of defining them, or saying what we do and do not know about historical terminology. May be worth it to get more Indian words to search for, though, it seems to cover alot of music vocabularly.… (mehr)