Title: Hidden faces of ancient Indian song
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.
Subjects: Folk music, Folk songs, History and criticism, Vocal music, Performance practice (Music), Instruction and study, Hindustani music, Chants
Places: India