The text of this book, preceded by an introduction, is presented in seven chapters and covers a period of approximately five thousand years. In an aural culture what was the role of gesture and what is its role now? There are many doors to open in pursuing these and other questions. This book opens some of them.
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SOLVEIG MCINTOSH is a musician and research scholar in the musical traditions
of Northern India. She qualified as a teacher in the 1970s and completed her
Doctoral studies in 1993. She has given talks in Britain, Holland, New Zealand
and India and has contributed articles to various books and journals. As well
as publishing a book, Hidden Faces of Ancient Indian Song, she has produced a
DVD, Ancient Indian Song, and three CDs, Traditional Vedic Invocations, Hymns
of the Vedas and Sanskrit Songs to the Divine. She has given workshops both in
Britain and abroad.
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