Books
Texts on Music & Dance
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TARJUMA-I-MANAKUTUHALA & RISALA-I-RAGADARPANA
ISBN : 81-208-1282-4Edited By :SHAHAB SARMADEE
(1996 lxviii+314pp)
Rs.500.00This is the first Persian text brought out in the Kalāmūlaśāstra Series. The volume presents a combined text on music in Persian that was compiled during the seventeenth century CE. The fact of its being a combined text has gone unnoticed till recently. Read More
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DATTILAM of DATTILA MUNI
ISBN : 81-208-0586-0Edited By :MUKUND LATH
(1988, xvii+236pp, textual notes., com., appen., bibl.)
Rs.300.00The Dattilam, ascribed to Dattila Muni, is a remarkable treatise from the earliest known period of organized systematic writing on music in India. The work can be placed in the same period as that of the available recension of the Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharata MuniRead More
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THE PUSPA-SUTRA: A PRATISAKHYA OF SAMAVEDA
ISBN : 81-208-1792-3(set)Edited By :G. H. TARLEKAR
(2001, 2 vols., xxxii+415pp, appen. bibl.)
Rs.1,550.00The Puṣpa-Sūtra is one of the major ancillary works in the Sāman technical literature attributed to the Kauthuma and Rāṇāyaṇīya schools. It deals with the Sāman melodies and their structure.Read More
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BRHADDSI of SRI MATANGA MUNI
ISBN : 81-208-1031-7Edited By :PREM LATA SHARMA
(1992, Vol.I, xviii+193pp)
Rs.275.00The Bṛhaddeśī ascribed to Mataṅga Muni, and most probably belonging to the sixth century CE, is a landmark in Saṅgītaśāstra for more than one reason. It is the solitary text that forges a link between Nāṭyaśāstra and Dattilam Read More
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CATURDANDIPRAKASIKA of SRI VENKATAMAKHIN
ISBN : 81-208-1851-2Edited By :R. SATHYANARAYANA
(2006, xxv+472 pp)
Rs.3,000.00The Caturdaṇḍīprakāśikā (c. CE 1650) of Venkatamakhin is a fundamental treatise of Karnataka music and marks the rearguard in the renaissance of Indian music. It has launched a crucial, conceptual revolution which has metamorphosed this musical system into an enduring and attractive paddhati…Read More
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MATRALAKSANAM
ISBN : 81-208-0585-5Edited By :WAYNE HOWARD
(1988, xvi,+98 pp,musical notations, bibl)
Rs.150.00The publication of this volume has laid the foundation of the IGNCA’s programme of publishing fundamental texts of the Indian traditions in original with translations. The importance of this text is enhanced by the fact that it represents two very important śakhās (recensions) of the Sāmaveda – Rāṇāyanīya and Kauthuma-on chanting. Read More [expand title=”View Book”]
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NARTANANIRNAYA of SRI PANDARIKA VITTHALA
ISBN : 81-208-1217-9Edited By :R. SATHYANARAYANA
(1994, Vol. I, xiii+357pp.)
Rs.450.00The Nartananirṇaya is one of the notable Sanskrit treatise on Indian music and dance, appearing after the Saṅgītaratnākara of Śārṅgadeva. Its author Śrī Paṇḍarīka Viṭṭhala (sixteenth century) was a profound and versatile scholar who had also written Ṣaḍrāgacandrodaya, Rāgamālā, Rāgamañjarī, Dūtīkarmaprakāśa and Śīghrabodhinī-nāmamālā.Read More
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RAGALAKSANA SRI MUDDHUVNKATAMAKHIN
ISBN : 978-81-208-3408-8Edited By :R. SATHYANARAYANA
(2010, xvii + 376 pp)
Rs.900.00The Rāgalakṣaṇam was composed by Mudduveṅkaṭamakhin in Tanjore in the early eighteenth century CE. It is an important text of Karnataka music and appeared in an effervescent epoch in the development of this music system of which it deals only with rāga…Read More
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RAGAVIBODHA
ISBN : 978-81-208-3794-2
(2014, xlv+391pp.)
Rs.600.00The Ragavibodha is a masterpiece on musicology from the 17th century. It was composed by SomanŒtha to address the existing contradictions between the ancients’ theory and prevailing performance practices; thus making it an indispensable treatise, to be included in the Kalamulasastra series of the IGNCA.
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SANGITANARAYANA of SRI PURUSOTTAMA MISRA
ISBN : 978-81-208-3289-3Edited By :Mandakaranta Bose
(2009, xix + 968 pp)
Rs.2,100.00The Saṅgītanārāyaṇa is a Sanskrit text on music and dance written in the seventeenth century by Puruṣottama Miśra, a minister at the court of King Gajapati Nārāyaṇadeva of Parlākimiḍi in Orissa and his instructor in musicology, with the assistance of the king…Read More