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The New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians, under India. Sri Krithi Mani Malai
by R. Rangaramanuja Iyengar, 4 volumes. Ganamrutha Varna Malika by A. S. Panchapakesa Iyer.
Abhyaasa Gaanam by A. Sundaram Iyer. Karnataka Sangeetham by A. Sundaram Iyer.
Karnataka Sangeetham by Prof. P. Sambamoorthy, 3 volumes. This book is intended to be read
through (perhaps several times) and it is inadvisable to delve into the later sections without
reading through the earlier sections. Most of the terminology is originally in Sanskrit
and I have made no attempt to use a standard transliteration scheme e.g. Carnatic and Karnatic
are both used. In fact, I have mixed Tamil and Sanskrit terms freely (raga, ragas and
ragams can all be found in the text) and hope it is not a nuisance. I have assumed little
more than an interest in Carnatic music on the part of the reader and thus, the initial
sections deal with basics like swaras, their names etc. Being a scientist and an engineer,
I was tempted to include mathematical ideas wherever possible.
Further, it is very difficult to present anything other than an analytical approach in a book
like this. Nevertheless, most of the mathematical and physical concepts used are elementary
and are no more advanced than what one would encounter in high school.
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