The music of India / by Herbert A. Popley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Popley, Herbert A., author.

Contributor:

Oxford University Press, publisher.

Association Press, publisher.

Series:

Heritage of India

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hindu music.

Musical instruments--India.

Musical instruments.

India.

Penn Provenance:

Simpson, Ann Ingersoll Townsend, 1915-2012 (donor) (Libra Rare copy)

Townsend, Nancy (autograph) (Libra Rare copy)

Y.M.C.A. Publishing House, Calcutta (stamp) (Libra Rare copy)

Physical Description:

vii, 3 unnumbered pages, 173 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : plates, music ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Calcutta : Association Press, 1921.

London ; New York : Oxford University Press

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Legend and history

3. The development of the scale

4. Raga, the basis of melody

5. Tala, or time measures

6. Musical compositions

7. The musical instruments of India

8. Indian and western music.

Notes:

Includes index.

"Bibliography of Indian music": pages 137-141, 173.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare copy ML338 .P67 was separated from the Ann Ingersoll Townsend Simpson papers (UPT 50 S1613). Has stamp of Y.M.C.A. Publishing House and autograph of NAncy Townsend.

OCLC:

1307501