Hidden faces of ancient Indian song
By: Solveig McIntosh.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Folk songs -- India -- History and criticism; Folk music -- India -- History and criticism
Description: "Hidden Faces of Ancient Indian Song traces a progression from basic principles of sound to different kinds of musical composition, from simplicity to complexity, from the finer concepts of sound to their incorporation within different forms of music. The author delineates a vocabulary for expressing different qualities and aspects of manifest and unmanifest sound. The book will appeal to ethnomusicologists, philosophers, linguists and anthropologists."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ear; title: The mouth; title: Vedic accents; title: The hand; title: Octaves; title: Song forms; title: Style.