Music and Musical Thought in Early India

编  者：Lewis Rowell
出版社：University of Chicago Press
出版时间：2015-12-25
ISBN号：978-0226730332
页  数：432页
包  装：paperback
索书号：J609.351/L9390
所在库室：锦江校区图书馆9楼教参阅览室1册
内容简介：
Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs the tunings, scales, modes, rhythms, gestures, formal patterns, and genres of Indian music from Vedic times to the thirteenth century, presenting not so much a history as a thematic analysis and interpretation of India's magnificent musical heritage.
In Indian culture, music forms an integral part of a broad framework of ideas that includes philosophy, cosmology, religion, literature, and science. Rowell works with the known theoretical treatises and the oral tradition in an effort to place the technical details of musical practice in their full cultural context. Many quotations from the original Sanskrit appear here in English translation for the first time, and the necessary technical information is presented in terms accessible to the nonspecialist. These features, combined with Rowell's glossary of Sanskrit terms and extensive bibliography, make Music and Musical Thought in Early India an excellent introduction for the general reader and an indispensable reference for ethnomusicologists, historical musicologists, music theorists, and Indologists.
作者介绍：
Lewis Rowell is professor emeritus at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.
目录：
1 Introduction
2 Thought
3 Sound
4 Chant
5 Theater
6 Sastra
7 Pitch
8 Time
9 Form
10 Song
11 Style
12 Afterthoughts