The Grammar of Carnatic Music

K.G. Vijayakrishnan

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2007

The Grammar of Carnatic Music

K.G. Vijayakrishnan

Volume 8 in the series Phonology and Phonetics [PP]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198881

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About this book

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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K.G.Vijayakrishnan, Central Institute of English Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Chapter 1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. Language and (Carnatic) music Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
Chapter 3. Issues in modeling the grammar: Language and Carnatic music Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 4. Conversion of pitch values to notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Chapter 5. Representation of the musical line Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Chapter 6. Construing meaning in Carnatic music: Determining grammaticality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter 7. Construing meaning in Carnatic music: Style/stylistic issues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Chapter 8. The lexicon of Carnatic music Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Chapter 9. Accounting for variation in Carnatic music Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Research Libraries, Teachers and Advances Students of Linguistics (Phonology, Phonetics), Indian Studies and Musicology.
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 342
Keywords: India/music; India/language; phonology; metrics

eBook

Published: September 25, 2008
ISBN: 9783110198881

Hardcover

Published: November 20, 2007
ISBN: 9783110183139