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Contributors   Arati Rao   Girija Easwaran   Harold S. Powers   Hema Ramanathan   Hemalatha R   Jayalakshmi R S   Latha R   Margaret Bastin   Nandhini M   Nandini Sharma Anand   Narayanaswami, P. P.   Premalatha V   Priyashri V Rao   Ramanathan N     -    General     -    History of Music     -    Music Analysis     -    Music and Education     -    Music Database     -    Musical Concepts     -    Musican-Scholars     -    Text Scan     -    Textual Study   Richard Widdess   Ritha Rajan   Sathyanarayana R   Shyamala Kannan Nair   Subramanian M   Veerapandian S.A.   Vijayakumar , Alathoor Name Action last updated:Jun-27-2010 Bharatakalpalata-M -1 Tel 53MB Scan of the Book 'Bharatakalpalatmanjari' edited by P.Subba Sastri P & P.Ankaji Sastri and published More... last updated:Jun-27-2010 Bharatakalpalata-M Tel 51MB Scan of the Book 'Bharatakalpalatmanjari' contd. Scan File-2 last updated:Nov-09-2008 Brhaddesi of Matanga Presents a brief account of the contents of the Brhaddesi of Matanga last updated:Sep-16-2008 Caturdandiprakasika of Venkatamakhi Presents a brief account of the contents of the Samskrta text Caturdandiprakasika of Venkatamakhi last updated:Sep-16-2008 Concept of Srutijati Srutijati term and its varieties occur in the Sangitaratnakara of Sarngadeva. The concept of Srutija More... last updated:Jun-27-2010 Diksita-Kirtanai-Prakasikai (Tam) 40MB This is a scanned text of an old book (1936), containing notations of 50 kirtana-s of Muttusvami Dik More... last updated:Jun-15-2010 Dissertations – List A list of dissertations submitted for the Ph.D. degree collected from the Bulletin of the Associatio More... last updated:Sep-16-2008 Form in Music This article discusses the concept of Form in Music and discusses the nature of musical forms from More... last updated:Jun-27-2010 Gandharva Forms Described as 'sacred' and 'Art' music, Gandharva forms have been described in texts like Natyasastra More... last updated:Nov-09-2008 Harold S Powers and India This is an account of Professor Harold S Powers' introduction to Karnataka and Hindustani music and More... last updated:Sep-16-2008 Improvisation in Karnataka Music An article on Improvisation or the Manodharma aspect of contemporary South Indian Music last updated:Oct-01-2008 Interpreting the 'Graham' part of the Sv In some Kirtanas of Muttusvami Dikshitar there is a (Citta) Svaram passage followed by another passa More... last updated:Jun-27-2010 Journals and Magazines in Music in India - List This is a list of Journals and Magazines in Music with addresses.- 27-06-2010 last updated:May-25-2009 Manasollasa of Somesvara A scanned copy of two chapters of the GOS edition of Manosollasa or Abhilasitartha-cintamani by Some More... last updated:Jun-27-2010 Music Books - List A list of not only books on music but on allied arts and on related disciplines. Information is inco More... last updated:Jun-27-2010 Music Research News Letter - Previous Despatches Scholars visiting the site had requested for the previous desptaches of the Music Research News Lett More... last updated:Sep-16-2008 Music through Distance Education Based on the experiences of conducting distance education in music at the University of Madras, this More... last updated:Sep-16-2008 Natyasastra of Bharata Presents a brief account of the contents of Natyasastra of Bharata last updated:Jun-20-2010 Pallavi Svara Kalpavalli (Tel.)- 59 MB This is a scanned *.pdf text of an old book, by Tiruvorriyur Tyagayyar containing songs of his fathe More... last updated:Sep-16-2008 Pre-1940 Music Publications A survey of books on Music in Tamizh and Telugu published before 1940 has been made along with a lis More... last updated:Nov-09-2008 Problems in Editing Kirtana-s of MudDiksita Editing in the context of musical compositions is beset with problems not confronted in the editing More... last updated:Nov-09-2008 Raga-vibodha-Adayar edition The text of Ragavibodha of Somanatha with his own commentary Viveka, was edited by Pandita S.Subrahm More... last updated:Jun-07-2009 Rasikajana-MU-SSB -1 Skt/Kan -39MB Scan of the Book ‘Rasika-jana-manollasini Sara-sangra-bharata’ of Venkatasundarasani, edited by More... last updated:Jun-07-2009 Rasikajana-MUSSB -2 Skt/ Kan 31MB Scan of the Book ‘Rasika-jana-manollasini Sara-sangraha-Bharata’ contnd. Scan File-2 last updated:Jun-15-2010 Samskrta-andhra-dravida-kirtanamulu (Telugu) – 24 Compositions of Krsnasvamayya, tuned by Subbarama Dikshitar and published the latter in 1906. last updated:Jun-27-2009 Sangita-jnana-kala-anubhava-30MB This is a scanned copy of a Telugu book Sangita-jnana-kala-anubhava written by Sangitam Venkataraman More... last updated:Jun-27-2010 Sangita-samaya-sara 'KCDBrhaspati edn.' The first edition of Sangitasamayasara of Parsvadeva was brought out under the Trivandrum Sanskrit S More... last updated:Sep-16-2008 Sangitaratnakara of Sarngadeva Presents a brief account of the contents of the Sangitaratnakara of Sarngadeva last updated:Sep-16-2008 Sankirtana Ratnavali (Tel.) (20 MB) This is scanned *.pdf text of an old book, by Tiruvorriyur Tyagayyar containing his songs. The origi More... last updated:Sep-16-2008 Sargam and Musical Conception in Karnataka System The paper discusses the role of Sargam or sa, ri, ga, ma and other syllables as text and melodic mat More... last updated:Sep-16-2008 SriKrshnalilatarangini-Index This is a compilation of an Index of songs, verses, prose passages in the Sri Krishnalila Tarangini More... last updated:May-24-2009 Swaramelakalanidhi of Ramamatya Presents a brief account of the contents of the Svaramelakalanidhi of Ramamatya last updated:Sep-16-2008 Tala-Dasa-Prana and Musicological problems in Pres The paper interprets the ten elements of Tala as explained in the music texts and on that background More... last updated:Sep-16-2008 Vadi-Samvadi-Vivadi-Anuvadi-Svara-s The meaning of the four terms, Vadi, Samvadi, Vivadi and Anuvadi have been discussed as presented in More... last updated:Oct-01-2008 Visakhila's Work - A Reconstruction Visakhila's views on and description of the music are known only through citations. This paper is an More...