CLASSICAL MUSIC OF THE SUB-CONTINENT: AN INTRODUCTION 3e(hb)2007

The book is enough to give anyone a smattering of the vocabulary of classical music of the subcontinent & hopefully to what an appetite for more Indo-Pakistani classical music has survived and thrived for thousands of years while remaining an oral art form with little or no written tradition Why then a written book for such a resiliently oral art? Just as a written Western symphony is played with precision by reading from a score a raag (melody) can also be put to notation and elaborated AUTHOR: S M SHAHID