Hindu Music from Various Authors

An 1875 compilation of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English writings on Indian music by noted orientalists, including Sir William Jones.

Sourindro Mohum Tagore (Edited by)

9781108064002, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 June 2013

348 pages, 10 music examples
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.44 kg

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.

Preface
1. Treatise on the music of Hindustan N. Augustus Willard
2. On the musical modes of the Hindus William Jones
3. Anecdotes of Indian music W. Ouseley
4. On the gramas or musical scales of the Hindus J. D. Paterson
5. On the vina or Indian lyre Francis Fowke
6. Sungeet Francis Gladwin
7. The naqqarahkhanah and the imperial musicians H. Blochmann
8. The oriental music of Hindustan William C. Stafford
9. Music of the Hindus J. Nathan
10. The music of Hindustan Anon.
11. Catalogue of Indian musical instruments P. T. French
12. Music James Tod
13. Notes on the musical instruments of the Nepalese A. Campbell
14. Music of Ceylon John Davy
15. Music and dancing John Crawfurd.

Subject Areas: Theory of music & musicology [AVA]