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Composition 592 and Music History 590 Graduate Seminar 2015 Spring term

The Classical Music of India

Basic Bibliography

Basic Readings for Course

Arnold, Alison. 2000. "Profile of South Asia and its Music" in South Asia: The Indian

Subcontinent. Alison Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Catlin, Amy. 2000. "Karnatak Vocal and Instrumental Music" in South Asia: The Indian

Subcontinent. Alison Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Howard, Wayne. 2000. "Vedic Chant" in South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent. Alison

Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Kassebaum, Gayathri Rajapur. 2000. "Karnatak Raga" in South Asia: The Indian

Subcontinent. Alison Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Kippen, James R. 2000. “Hindustani Tala” in South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent.

Alison Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Miner, Allyn. 2000. “Musical Instruments: Northern Area” in South Asia: The Indian

Subcontinent. Alison Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Nelson, David Paul. 2000. “Karnatak Tala” in South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent.

Alison Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Reck, David. 2000. “Musical Instruments: Southern Area” in South Asia: The Indian

Subcontinent. Alison Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Ruckert, George and Richard Widdness. 2000. “Hindustani Raga” in South Asia: The

Indian Subcontinent. Alison Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Slawek Stephen. 2000. “Hindustani Instrumental Music” in South Asia: The Indian

Subcontinent. Alison Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Wade, Bonnie C. 2000. “Hindustani Vocal Music: in South Asia: The Indian

Subcontinent. Alison Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.

Background Reading Balsham, A. L. 1959. The Wonder That Was India. New York: Grove Press. Becker, Judith. 1986. “Is Western Art Music Superior?” MQ (341-59) De Bary, W. T. 1958. Sources of Indian Tradition, New York: Columbia University

Press. Flood, Gavin 1996. An Introduction to Hinduism. Cambridge: Cambridge University

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Press. Keay, John 2000. India: A History. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.

Vedic Ritual and Recitation

Heesterman, Jan, The Broken World of Sacrifice. Chicago: UChicago Press. Lannoy, Richard. 1971. The Speaking Tree a Study of Indian Culture and Society.

London, New York: Oxford University Press. Smith, Brian K. 1989. Reflections on Ritual, Resemblence, and Religion. New York :

Oxford University Press. O’Flaherty, Wendy. 1981. The Rig Veda : an anthology : one hundred and eight hymns,

selected, translated and annotated. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, New York : Penguin Books.

Staal, F., et.al., Altar of Fire. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas.

Medieval Hindu Devotionalism: Vaisnava and Saiva in Sanskrit and Vernacular

Traditions

Courtright, Paul B. 1985. Ganesa : Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings. London and New York: Oxford University Press.

Gonda, J. 1970. Visnuism and Sivaism: a Comparison. London: Athlone P. Ramanujan, A.K. c.1981. Hymns for the Drowning : Poems for Visnu. Princeton, N.J. :

Princeton University Press. Ramanujan, A.K. c.1994. When God is a Customer : Telugu Courtesan Songs. Berkeley:

University of California Press.

Sources on Tantra

Padoux, André. c.1990. Vac: the Concept of the Word in Selected Hindu Tantras. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Silburn, Lilian. c.1988. Kundalini : the energy of the depth: a comprehensive study based on the Scriptures of nondualistic Kashmir Saivism. Albany: State University of New York Press.

History of Indian Music

Rowell, Lewis. 1992. Music and Musical Thought in Early India. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press. Rowell, Lewis. 2000. “Theoretical Treatises” in South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent.

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Alison Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Nijenhuis, Emmiete 1974. Indian Music: History and Structure. Leiden: Brill. Simms, Robert. 2000. "Scholarship since 1300" in South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent.

Alison Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.

Indian Classical Music Powers, Harold S. 1965. “Indian Music and the English Language: A Review Essay.”

Ethnomusicology 9/1: 1-12. Kinnear, Michael S. 1985. A Discography of Hindustani and Karnatic Music. Westport.

CT: Greenwood Press. Mehta, R. C. 1994. Directory of Doctoral Theses in Music. Bombay and Baroda: Indian

Musicological Society. Wade, Bonnie. 1988. Music of India: The Classical Traditions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ,

MD: Prentice-Hall.

Karnatic Music Bhagyalekshmy, S. 1990. Ragas in Carnatic Music. Trivandrum: CBH Publications. Bhagyalekshmy, S. 1998. Carnatic Music Compositions. 2nd edition. Nagercoil: CBH

Publications. Brown, Robert E. 1965. “The Mrdanga; A Study of Drumming in South India.” Ph.D.

diss., University of California at Los Angeles. Catlin, Amy Ruth. 1980. “Variability and Change in Three Karnataka Kriti-s: A Study of

South Indian Classical Music.” Ph.D. diss., Brown University. Chelladurai, P. T. 1980. The Spendour of South Indian Music. Dindigul, Tamilnadu:

Vaigarai Publishers. Catlin, Amy Ruth. “Variability and Change in Three Karnataka Kriti-s: A Study of South

Indian Classical Music.” Ph.D. diss., Brown University. Dhandapati, M. N. and D. Pattammal. 1991. Ragapravaham: Index to Carnatic Ragas.

Madras: Fine Offset Printers. Diksitulu, Brahmasri Subbarama. C. 1904. Sangita Sampradaya Pradarsini. Volumes I -

IV. English Translation in 1910-13 (republished in 2012), Pappu Venugopala Rao, ed. Madras: The Music Accademy

Devnath, Lakshmi. 2013. An Incurable Romantic: The Musical Journey of Lalgudi Jayaraman. Nioda, Uttar Pradesh: Harper Collins Publishers.

Groesbeck, Rolf. 1999. “Cultural Construction of Improvisation in Tayampaka, A Genre of Temple Instrumental Music in Kerala, India.” Ethnomusicology 43/1: 1-30.

Higgens, Jon.. 1973. “The Music of Bharata Natyam.” Ph.D. diss., Wesleyan University.

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Jackson, William. 1992. “Features of the Kriti: A Song Form Developed by Tyagaraja.” Asian Music 24/1: 19-66.

Jackson, William J. 1991. Tyagaraja: Life and Lyrics. Madras: Oxford University Press. Jackson, William. 2000. “Religious and Devotional Music: Southern Area” in South

Asia: The Indian Subcontinent. Alison Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.

Kaufmann, Walter. 1976. The Ragas of South India: A Catalogue of Scalar Material. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.

Krishna, T M. 2013. A Southern Music: The Karnatik Story. Nioda, Uttar Pradesh: Harper Collins Publishers.

Kumar, K. and Stackhouse, J. Classical Music of South India: Karnatic Tradition in Western Notation. Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press.

L'Armand, Kathleen, and Adrian L'Armand. 1983. “One Hundred Years of Music in Madras: A Case Study in Secondary Urbanization.” Ethnomusicology 27/3 :411-38.

Morris, Robert. 1990. “A Review of Classical Music of South India: Karnatic Tradition in Western Notation by Kanthimathi Kumar and Jean Stackhouse.” JMR (267-71).

Morris, Robert. 2001. “Variation and Process in South Indian Music: Some Kritis and their Sangatis.” Music Theory Spectrum 23/1: 75-89.

Morris, Robert. 2004. “The Survival of Music: Musical Citizenship in South India,” Perspectives of New Music, 42:66-87.

Morris, Robert. 2006. “Architectonic Composition in South Indian Classical Music: The ‘Navaragamalika Varnam’,” in Analytical Studies in World Music, Michael Tenzer, ed. London and New York: Oxford University Press.

Morris, Robert and Chitravina N. Ravikiran. 2006. “Ravikiran's Concept of Melharmony: An Inquiry into Harmony in South Indian Ragas,” Music Theory Spectrum, 28/2:255-76.

Nelson, David Paul. 1991. “‘Mrdangam' Mind: The 'Tani Avartanam’ in Karnatak Music.” Ph.D. diss.,Wesleyan University.

Nelson, David Paul. 2008. Solkattu Manual: An Introduction to the Rhythmic Language of South Indian Music. Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

Pesch, Ludwig. 1993. Raga Dhana: an Alpha-numerical Directory of Ragas. 2nd Edition. Irinjalakuda, Trichur, Kerala: Natana Kairali.

Pesch, Ludwig. 1999. The Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music. London and New York: Oxford.

Powers, Harold, S. 1958. “The Background of the South Indian Raga-System.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University.

Powers, Harold S. 1984. “Musical Art and Esoteric Theism: Muttusvami Dikshitar's Anandabhairavi Kirtanams on Siva and Sakti at Tiruvarur.” In Discourses on

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Siva: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Nature of Religious Imagry. Michael W. Meister, ed. Bombay: Vakils, Feffer & Simons Ltd.

Rajagopala Iyer, S. c. 1988. Sangeetha Akshara Hridaya: A New Approach to Tala Calculations. Bangalore: Gaanarasika Mandali.

Rahn, Jay. 1981. “Structure, Frequency and Artificiality in South Indian Melas.” in T. Temple Tuttle, ed., Proceedings of the Saint Tyagaraja Music Festivals, 1978-81. Cleveland Ohio: The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum.

Ramakrishna, Lalita. 1991. The Varnam: A Special Form in Karnatak Music. New Delhi: Harmon Publishing House.

Ramanathan, N. 1997. Essays on Tala and Laya. Bangalore: Percussive Arts Centre. Ramanujachari, C. c. 1970. The Spiritual Heritage of Tyagaraja. Madras: Sri

Ramakrishna Math. Rao, B. Dayananda. 1995. Carnatic Music Composers: A Collection of Biographical

Essays. Hyderabad: The Triveni Foundation. Reck, David B. 1990. “India/South India” in Worlds of Music. 2nd edition, Jeff Titon,

ed. New York: Schirmer Books. Reck, David B.. 2000. “Musical Instruments: Southern Area” in South Asia: The Indian

Subcontinent. Alison Arnold, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. Ries, Raymond E. 1969. “The Cultural Setting of South Indian Music.” Asian Music 1/2:

22-31. Sambamoorthy, P. 1984. A Dictionary of South Indian Music and Musicians. Vol. I-III.

Madras: The Indian Music Publishing House. Sambamoorthy, P. 1964. South Indian Music, Books. 1-6. Madras: The Indian Music

Publishing House. Simon, Robert L. 1988. “Tyagaraja and the South Indian Bhajan Sampradaya.” Asian

Music 20/1: 114-27. Skelton, William. 1971. “The Nagaswaram and the South Indian Hindu Festival.” Asian

Music 2/1: 18-24. Subba Rao B. 1996. Raganidhi, Volumes I-IV. Madras: The Music Academy. Subramaniam, Karaikudi S. 1985. “An Introduction to the South Indian Vina.” Asian

Music 16/2: 7-82. Swift, Gordon N. 1990. “South Indian Gamaka and the Violin.” Asian Music 21/2: 71-89. Terada, Yoshitara. 2000. “T. N. Ragarattinam Pillai and Caste Rivalry in South Indian

Classical Music.” Ethnomusicology 44/3: 460-90. Vedavalli, M. B. 1995. Ragam Tanam Pallavi; Their Evolution, Structure and

Exposition. M.R.J. Publications: Bangalore. Vijayakrishnan, K. G. 2007. The Grammar of Carnatic Music. Berlin: Walter de Gruter

GmbH & Co. Visvanathan, Tanjor. 1974. “Raga Alapana in South Indian Music.” Ph.D. diss.,

Wesleyan University.

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Viswanathan, Tanjor. 1977. “The Analysis of Raga Alapana in South Indian Music.” Asian Music 9/1/: 13-77.

Viswanathan, T. and Mathew Harp Allen. 2004. Music in South India: Experiencing Music. London and New York: Oxford University Press.

Hindustani Music Clayton, Martin. 2000. Time in Indian Music: Rhythm, Meter, and Form in North Indian

Rag Performance. London and New York: Oxford University Press. Daniélou, Alain.1954. Northern Indian Music Vol I-II. London: Halcyon Press. Jairazbhoy, N. A. 1971. The Rags of North India. London: Faber and Faber. Kaufmann, Walter. 1968. The Ragas of North India. Bloomington: University of Indiana

Press. Kippen, James. 1988.The Tabla of Lucknow, A Cultural Analysis of a Musical Tradition.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Neuman, Daniel. 1980. The Life of Music in North India. Detroit: Wayne State University

Press. Prajnanananda, Swami. 1981 A Historical Study of Indian Music. Delhi: Munshiram

Manoharlal. Ranade, Ashok. 1990. Hindustani Classical Music: Keywords and Concepts. New Delhi:

Promilla & Co. Rao Suvarnata, Wim van der Meer and Jane Harvey. 1999. The Raga Guide: A survey of

74 Hindustani Ragas Joep Bor, ed. Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, UK: Nimbus Records.

Ruckert, George. 1991. Introduction to the Classical Music of North India. St. Louis: East Bay Books—MMB Music, inc.

Shankar, Ravi. 1968. My Music, My Life. New York: Simon and Schuster. Shepherd, Frances. 1976. “Tabla and the Banares Gharana.” Ph.D. diss., Wesleyan

University. Stewart, Rebecca. 1974. “The Tabla in Perspective.” Ph.D. diss., University of California

at Los Angeles. Subba Rao B. 1996. Raganidhi, Volumes I-IV. Madras: The Music Academy. Wade, Bonnie. 1984. Khyal: Creativity within North India's Classical Music Tradition.

Cambridge” Cambridge University Press.

Collections of Notated Music

Bhagyalekshmy, S. and M. N. Moorthy. 1997. Muthuswamy Dikshitar Compositions. Nagercoil: CBH Publications.

Jayaraman, Lalgudi G. 1994. Lalgudi's Creations: Compositions of V. R. Gopala Iyer and

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Lalgudi G. Jayaraman. Madras: Sai Shriram Printers. Panchapakesa Iyer, A. S. 1995.Ganamrutha Keerthana Malika (4 vols.) Madras: A R K

Printers. Panchapakesa Iyer, A. S. 1996.Pancharathna Ganamrutham (with notation). Madras: A

R K Printers. Panchapakesa Iyer, A. S. 1997.Kamalamba Navavaranam: Sree Muthuswami Dikshidar

(with notation). Madras: A R K Printers. Rao, T. K. Govinda. 1997. Compositions of Muddusvami Dikshitar. Chennai:

Ganamandir Publications. Rao, T. K. Govinda. 1997. Compositions of Syama Sastri, Subbaraya Sastri &

Annasvami Sastri. Chennai: Ganamandir Publications. Rao, T. K. Govinda. 1999. Compositions of Tyagaraja. 2nd edition. Chennai:

Ganamandir Publications. Shankar, Vidya. 1989. Syama Sastry's Compositions. 3rd Edition. Madras: Parampara. Sivanandam. The Dance Compositions of the Tanjor Quartet: Ponnayya, Chinnayya,

Sivanandam, Vadivel. Chidambaram: Aparana Printers.

Other Related Texts Lockhart, Peter. 2008. Indian Rhythms for Drumset. New York: Hudson Music.