On title page: Codarts. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The formative period. Sanskrit and Indo-Persian literature on music / Emmie te Nijenhuis and François 'Nalini' Delvoye ; Music patronage in the Indo-Persian context : a historical overview / Madhu Trivedi ; Musical forms in medieval India / Emmie te Nijenhuis ; The emergence of dhrupad / Richard Widdess ; Collections of lyrics in Hindustani music : the case of dhrupad / François 'Nalini' Delvoye ; The origins and early development of khayal / Katherine Butler Brown -- The modern period. Hindustani music : a historical overview of the modern period / Joep Bor and Allyn Miner ; A mine of music history from nineteenth-century Lucknow / Regular Burckhardt Qureshi ; Thumri, ghazal, and modernity in Hindustani music culture / Peter Manuel ; Dhadhis and other bowing bards / Daniel Neukman ; Rampur as a centre of music / Sulochana Brahaspati ; Representing Hindi music to the colonial and native elite of Calcutta / Charles Capwell ; Music schools and societies in Bombay c. 1864-1937 / Michael D. Rosse ; The all-India music conferences of 1916-1925 : cultural transformation and colonial ideology / David Trasoff ; Music and music drama in Maharashtra / Ashok Da Ranade -- Musical instruments. Sources on the early history of the tambūr, rabab, sitar and sarod / Allyn Miner ; A historical account of the fretted vina / Philippe Bruguière ; Early Indian bowed instruments and the origin of the bow / Joep Bor ; The history of tabla / James Kippen -- Indian music and the West. Indian music and the west : a historical overview / Gerry Farrell ; A harpsichord on the banks of the Ganges : English keyboard instruments and the collection of Hindostannie airs / Ian Woodfield ; Early Western pioneers : John Foulds and Maud MacCarthy / Neil Sorrell ; Rabindranath Tagore and Frederik van Eeden : reception of a poet-king in the Netherlands / Rokus de Groot -- Concepts and theories. Sargam notations and rāg-rāgiṇī theory / Harold Powers ; The construction, reconstruction, and deconstruction of shruti / Suvarnalata Rao and Wim van der Meer.
Summary:
Papers presented at the Symposium: "The History of North Indian Music : Fourteenth to Twentieth Centuries", held at Rotterdam during 17-20 December 1997.
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