Music and musical thought in early India /

Bibliografia s. 387-395.

1. Introduction ; 1.1. Music and Musical Thought in Early India ; 1.2. The Divisions of Music ; 1.3. Microcosm and Macrocosm ; 1.4. Chronology and Sources ; 2. Thought ; 2.1. Introduction ; 2.2. Continuities of Indian Thought ; 2.3. Systematic Thinking ; 2.4. Symbolic Thinking ; 3. Sound ; 3.1. Introduction ; 3.2. The Divisions of Sound ; 3.3. The Theory of Sound ; 3.4. Sound: A Lexicon ; 3.5. Casual Sound: Nada ; 3.6. Akasa, the Medium of Sound ; 3.7 Sound and the External World ; 3.8. Three Ancient Conceptions of Musical Sound ; 4. Chant ; 4.1. Introduction ; 4.2. Samavedic Chant ; 4.2.1. The Role of Memory ; 4.2.2. Chironomy ; 4.2.3. Duration and Tempo ; 4.2.4. Dynamics ; 4.3. The Phonetic Treatises ; 4.4. Some Distinctive Features of Sanskrit and Their Musical Consequences ; 4.5. Narada's Siksa and the Organization of Musical Pitch ; 4.6. Milieu ; 5. Theater ; 5.1. Introduction ; 5.2. The Natyasastra ; 5.3. The Preliminary Rituals ; 5.4. The Incidental Music ; 5.5 Instruments ; 5.6. Epilogue ; 6. Sastra ; 6.1. Introduction ; 6.2. Musical Scholarship ; 6.3. Musical Discourse ; 6.4. The Language of Musical Speculation ; 6.5. Notations ; 7. Pitch ; 7.1. Introduction ; 7.2. The Gamut and Its Tuning ; 7.3. Philosophical Arguments on Struti and Svara ; 7.4. The Gamut and Its Variables ; 7.5. Sonance ; 7.6. The Tanas ; 7.7. Melodic Choices ; 7.8. The Concept of Raga ; 8. Time ; 8.1. Introduction ; 8.2. The Idea of Time in Ancient India ; 8.3. Tala ; 8.4. Chironomy ; 8.5. Rhythmic Patterns ; 8.6. The Concept of State ; 8.7. Timing ; 8.8 The Desi Talas ; 8.9 The Influence of Metrics ; 8.10. The Rhythms of Indian Music ; 9. Form ; 9.1. Introduction ; 9.2. Formal Archetypes ; 9.2.1. The Human Body ; 9.2.2. Organic Growth ; 9.2.3. Ritual ; 9.2.4. Creation ; 9.3. Formal Components ; 9.4. Formal Tactics ; 9.4.1. Upohana ; 9.4.2. Upavartana ; 9.4.3. Prastara ; 9.5. Ritual Forms ; 9.6. Minor Forms ; 10. Songs ; 10.1. Introduction ; 10.2. The Prabandhas ; 10.3. Song Forms ; 10.4. A Garland of Songs ; 10.5. Expansion of the Genre ; 10.6. Cultural Mapping ; 10.7. The Theory and Practice of Song ; 11. Style ; 11.1. Introduction ; 11.2. Gender ; 11.3. Qualifications ; 11.4. Gunas and Dosas ; 11.5. The Qualities of Musical Sound ; 11.6. Style as a Composite ; 11.7. Levels of Ornamentation ; 11.8. Rasa ; 11.9. The Values of Indian Music ; 12. Afterthoughts.