The Grammar of Carnatic Music
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The Grammar of Carnatic Music

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The Grammar of Carnatic Music

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This book argues that Carnatic music as it is practiced today can be traced to the musical practices of early/mid eighteenth century. Earlier varieties or 'incarnations' of Indian music elaborately described in many musical treatises are only of historical relevance today as the music described is quite different from current practices. It is argued that earlier varieties may not have survived because they failed to meet the three crucial requirements for a language-like organism to survive i.e., a robust community of practitioners/listeners which the author calls the Carnatic Music Fraternity, a sizeable body of musical texts and a felt communicative need. In fact, the central thesis of the book is that Carnatic music, like language, survived and evolved from early/mid eighteenth century when these three requirements were met for the first time in the history of Indian music. The volume includes a foreword by Paul Kiparsky.

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2008
ISBN
9783110198881
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Foreword
  5. Chapter 1. Introduction
  6. Chapter 2. Language and (Carnatic) music
  7. Chapter 3. Issues in modeling the grammar: Language and Carnatic music
  8. Chapter 4. Conversion of pitch values to notes
  9. Chapter 5. Representation of the musical line
  10. Chapter 6. Construing meaning in Carnatic music: Determining grammaticality
  11. Chapter 7. Construing meaning in Carnatic music: Style/stylistic issues
  12. Chapter 8. The lexicon of Carnatic music
  13. Chapter 9. Accounting for variation in Carnatic music
  14. Backmatter