Sourindro Mohan Tagore (1840 1914), musicologist, educationist and patron of Indian music, was a member of a highly influential family in nineteenth-century Calcutta that was renowned for its support of the arts. His work to generate understanding in the West of music's role in Indian culture and heritage was recognised worldwide and he is remembered today through his extensive writings, donations of musical instruments to leading institutions, and the Royal College of Music's prestigious Tagore gold medal. His valuable compilation of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English writings on Indian music by learned Europeans was first printed for private circulation in 1875. It includes a catalogue of Indian musical instruments, illustrated notes by the orientalist William Ouseley (1767 1842), and a pioneering essay by Sir William Jones (1746 94), the Enlightenment polymath whose collected works are also reissued in this series.
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In the first part the present collection notwithstanding its short comings will be received with indulgence by those interested with the revival of Hindu music It also provides a further collection of the views of foreign writers on Hindu music which has been placed in the second part The first part contains extracts from almost all the eminent works on Hindu music found in the English language The similarity of the music of Egypt and Greece to that of this country has been traced and pointed out harmony and melody have been compared and time noticed The varieties of song have been enumerated and the character of each detailed A brief account of the principal musicians has been superadded and the work concluded with a short alphabetical glossary of the most useful musical terms 42 pp. N° de réf. du vendeur 82769
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