Books

Read the preface of the soon to be released book, Eminent Musicians of Yester Years by Prof. R.C. Mehta on the influence of over 600 music in the evolution of Indian Classical Music.

TITLE

AUTHOR

YEAR

Devadasi System in Ancient India (A Study of Temple Dancing Girls of  South India)

A. K. Singh

 

The Music of Hindostan

A.H. Fox Strangways

1914

The Natyasastra

Adya Rangacharya

 

The Ragas of North Indian Music

Alain Danielou

 

Introduction to the study of Musical Scales

Alain Danielou

 

Classical Music of North India

Ali Akbar Khan

 

Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Intercultural Music Studies; 5)

Allyn Miner

 

The Dance of Shiva

Ananda Coomarswamy

1918

Essays in Indian Ethnomusicology

Ashok Ranade

 

The Music of India

Atiya Begum Fyzee Rahamin  

1926

The Music of India - a scientific study

B Chaitanya Deva

 

Pillars of Hindusthani Music

B. R. DEODHAR, Popular Prakashan, Bombay

1993

Pillars of Hindusthani Music            

B. R.Deodhar   South Asia Books; ISBN: 8171545556

1993

Nad, Understanding Raga Music

BAGCHEE, Sandeep; Eeshwar, Delhi,

1998

Sonic Theology

BECK, Guy L., Motilal Barnasidass, Delhi

1995

The Path of the Mystic Lover: Baul Songs of Passion and Ecstasy

Bhaskar Bhattacharyya, Nick Douglas (Editor), Penny Slinger        (Illustrator), ISBN: 089281019X

1992

History of Indian Music: with particular reference to theory and practice
Bhavanrav A Pingle ISBN : 8175361786
 

Khayal with an audio cassette

 Bonnie C. Wade

 

Imaging Sound : An Ethno musicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India

Bonnie C. Wade University of Chicago Press; ISBN: 0226868400

1998

Music in India : The Classical Traditions

Bonnie Wade

 

Musical Instruments of India

Chaitanya Deva

 

The Indian Theatre

Chandra Bhan Gupta

 
Playing Techniques of Tabla: Banaras Gharana
Chhote Lal Misra
2007

Sastriya Sangeet and Music Culture in Bengal Through the Ages (2 vol. set)

Chhaya Chatterjee

 
Sri Sangita Kaladhar

Dahyalal Shivram Orig. Gujrati Text pub. 1934 republished by Sangeet Natak Academy

2006

MUSIQUES DE L'INDE DU SUD

Daniel Bertrand

 

Fundamentals of Tabla

David R. Courtney; University of Chicago Press; ISBN: 0226554511

 

The Mirror of the Sky : Songs of the Baul's of Bengal

Deben Bhattacharya;  ISBN: 0934252890

1999

Indian Music and Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan

Debu Chaudhuri (Editor)

 

Between Two Tempura

DESHPANDE, Vaman Rao Motilal Barnasidass, Delhi

1989

Musical Instruments of the World : An Illustrated Encyclopedia

Diagram Group

 

Musical Instruments of Tribal India

Dilip Bhattacharya

1999

Pakhawaj Aur Tabla Ke Gharane Evam Paramparayen

Dr. Aban E. Mistry, Sangeet Sadan Prakashan, Allahabad

2000

Bharatiya Sangeet Vadya

Dr. Lalmani Misra, Bharatiya Jnanpith, New Delhi, 1973, rprnt

2002-05
Sangeet Sarita Vol. 1,2,3
Dr. Lalmani Misra and Dr. Gopal Shankar Misra, Sahitya Ratnalaya Kanpur
1958-94

Tantri Nad Vol. 1

Dr. Lalmani Misra, Sahitya Ratnalaya Kanpur

1979

Swar Sadhana: Raga & Compostions

Dr. Laxmi G. Tiwari; SwarSadhana B-3, Shivam Complex, Lanka Varanasi

1997

Enlightening the Listener

Dr. Prabha Atre

 
Raga-Rupanjali
Dr. Pushpa Basu
2007

Indian Music

Dr. Thakur Jaideva Singh Sangeet Research Academy (Kolkata)

 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Elizabeth Keesing

 

20th Century Music: An Introduction

Eric Salzman, Prentice Hall

1974

The story of Indian Music and its Instruments

Ethel Rosenthal ISBN : 8175363088

1928-2003

MUSIQUES DE L'INDE DU NORD

Francis Tupper

 

Indian Music and the West

Gerry Farrell

 

Tansen  

Girish Chaturvedi

 
Music of India
H A Popley ISBN : 8185418063
1921
Psychology of Music
H P Krishna Rao ISBN : 8175360887
 

Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the Indian Diaspora

Helen Myers

 

Sitar Music in Calcutta: An Ethnomusicological Study

James S. Hamilton

 

Kuchipudi Bharatam or Kuchipudi Dance : A South Indian Classical Dance Tradition

K. Uma Rama Rao  ISBN: 8170302919 (Raga Nritya Series No 5)

1992

Classical Indian Dance in Literature and the Arts
Kapila Vatsyayan republished by Sangeet Natak Academy
1968-2007

Indian Classical Dancing : The Therapeutic Advantages

Kanaka Sudhakerv

 

Veena tradition in Indian music by

L. Annapoorna

 

Dhwani Aur Sangeet

Lalit Kishor Singh

1954,62,99

Indian Music       

Leela Floyd 

1980

Indian Dance Donors, Devotees, and the Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval  Tamilnadu

Leslie C. Orr

 

Music and Musical Thought in Early India

Lewis Rowell ISBN: 8121508673 Munshiram Manhorlal Publishers

1998 

Concept of Ancient Indian Theatre

M. Christopher Byrski

 

Evolution of Raga and Tala in Indian Music

M. R. Gautam

 

The Musical Heritage of India,

M.R. Gautam

 

Sangeet Aur Samaj

Madhukali, Bhopal

 

Shastriya Sangeet Aur Navachar

Madhukali, Bhopal

 

Shruti Aur Smriti

Madhukali, Bhopal

 

The Way Music

MARCOTTY, Thomas, Decisio, Lugano

1990

Indian Music and its Scientific Aspects:

Meera Mathur 

 

Sangitaratnakara of Sarngadeva, text and translation in English

Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, Delhi

1991

A Treatise on the Music of Hindustan
Capt. N. Augustus Willard
1834
The Anand Van of Indian Art

Naval Krishna, Ed.

Abhidha Prakashan,Varanasi

2004

The Life of Music in North India

NEUMAN, Daniel M Promilla, Delhi

1990

Cultural Rhythms in Emotions, Narratives and Dance

Nita Mathur

 

Ragas and Raginis

O. C. Ganguly

 

The story of Indian music: its growth and synthesis

O. Gosvami

 

Sangeet Ras: Parampara aur Vichar

OmPrakash Chourasiya, Ed.

2001

Hindustani Ragas Index

Patrick Moutal

 

A Comparative Study of Selected Hindustani Raga-s

Patrick Moutal, Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi

1991

Indian Music Book for two Guitars  

Pesy Khan

 

Usta Allauddin Khan

Prabha Jain, MP Hindi Granth Akademi

2001

Saras Sangeet

Pradeep Dixit,

1984

Foundations of Indian Musicology

Pradip Kumar Sengupta

 

Dancing to the Flute: Music and Dance in Indian Art

Pratapaditya Pal, et al

1997

Rasa - Volume 1 (Music and Dance)

Prof. Pabitra Sarkar

 

Rasa - Volume 2 (Theatre and Cinema)

Prof. Pabitra Sarkar

 

Composition in Indian Music

Prof. R.C. Mehta

1993

Directory of Doctoral Thesis in Music

Prof. R.C. Mehta

1994

Eminent Musicians of Yester Years
Prof. R.C. Mehta
2007

Essays in Musicology

Prof. R.C. Mehta

1987

Indian Classical Music & Gharana Tradition

Prof. R.C. Mehta

2008

Indian Music—Eminent Thinkers on Core Issues

Prof. R.C. Mehta

 

Music and Mythology Book 1 & 2

Prof. R.C. Mehta

1989

Music Research: Perspective and Prospects

Prof. R.C. Mehta

1994

Studies in Musicology

Prof. R.C. Mehta

1987

Thumri – Tradition and Trends

Prof. R.C. Mehta

1990

Psychology of Music

Prof. R.C. Mehta, Ed. Delhi S. Akademy

1990

Sangitaratnakara - Vol. 1

R.K. Shringy and Premlata Sharma

 

Sangitaratnakara - Vol. 2

R.K. Shringy and Premlata Sharma

 

Penguin Dictionary of Indian Classical Music

Raghava R. Menon

 
Bhāratīya Shāstrīya Sangīt: Shāstra, Shikshan Va Prayōg

Rajiv Trivedi, Ed. Sahitya Sangam, Allahabad

2008

Learn to Play on Sitar

Ran Avtar

 

Hindustani Classical Music, Keywords and Concepts

RANADE, Ashok Promilla, Delhi,

1990

Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar 

Ravi Shankar (Hardcover)

1999

Sitar As I Know

Ravi Sharma

1999

India's Kathak Dance: Past, Present and Future

Reginald Massey

 

Bismillah Khan and Benaras, the Seat of Shehnai

Rita Ganguly

 

Man-and-Music in India

Roshmi Goswami

 

A Yoga of Indian Classical Dance: The Yogini's Mirror

Roxanne and Kamayani Gupta

 

The origin of Raga

S. Bandhopadhyaya

 

Ada Chowtal on Sitar (Anthology of Poorav Baj)

S. Bandyopadhyaya

 

Fundamentals of Ancient Indian Music and Dance

S. C. Benerji

 

Indian Dance : The Ultimate Metaphor

Shanta Serbjeet Singh

 

Facets of Notation in South Indian Music

Sharada Gopalam

 

Kathak- Rhythmic Echoes and Reflections

Shovana Narayan

 

Ram NARAYAN, Indian Music in Performance

SORRELL, Neil, et al, Manchester University Press,

1980

Universal History of Music: Complied from divers sources Together with Various Original Notes on Hindu Music

Sourindro Mohun Tagore ISBN : 8175361565

 

Hindu Music

Sourindro Mohun Tagore ISBN : 8186142290

1874

Six Principal Ragas: with a brief view of Hindu Music

Sourindro Mohun Tagore ISBN : 8186142401

 
Seven Principal Musical notes of the Hindus
Sourindro Mohun Tagore ISBN : 8186142517
 
     

Hindu Dances (Nrityanjali)

Sri Ragini

 

Dhrupada

SRIVASTAVA, Indurama, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi

1980

Sitar Technique in Nibaddha Forms

Stephen M. Slawek

 

 Kathak: Indian Classical Dance Art

Sunil Kothari

 

Bharata Natyam

Sunil Kothari  Marg Publications ISBN: 818502636X

2001

Musical Instruments of India

Sunira Kasliwal

 

Senia Gharana Its Contribution to Indian Classical Music

Sunita Dhar

 
Musical Heritage of Lucknow.
Susheela Misra:Delhi: Harman, 156p., Rs. 560
1991
Some Immortals of Hindustani Music.
Susheela Misra:Delhi: Harman, 268p., Rs. 400
1990

Music Makers of the Bhatkhande College of Hindustani Music.

Susheela Misra:Delhi: MRML, 86p., Rs. 80
1985

Acoustical Perspective on Raga-Rasa theory

Suvarnalata Rao

 

A Historical Study of Indian Music

Swami Prajnanananda

 

Music : Its form, function and value

Swami Prajnanananda

 

Music of the Nations

Swami Prajnanananda

 

A Panorama of Indian Dances (Raga Nritya)

U. S. Rao

 
Comparative Study of some of the leading music systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

V N Bhatkhande ISBN : 8175363312

 

Hindustani Music in the 20th Century

VAN DER MEER, Wim, La Hague

1980

Malwa ke Lok-Nritya
Vijaya Khadikar, Cartons & Printers, Indore
 

Music Cultures of the Pacific, Near East, Asia

William P. Malm, Prentice Hall

 

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