The Story of Indian Music and Its Instruments
- New Delhi Oriental Books Reprint Corporation 1980
- 27, 220
The Story of Indian Music by Ethel Rosenthal is an outline sketch of the subject which is finding new adherents and admirers. It has been written primarily with a view to stimulate interest in Indian Music among those who are not aware about its nuances. For those are already acquainted with the subject, this work aims at providing further stimulus to their studies. In the present work, the author has sought to explore the vast panorama of Indian music and has divided this book into various chapters dealing respectively with Origins, Time and Tune, the Vina and some other instruments, Tyagaraja, All India Music Conferences and the Alliance of Indian Music with Poetry and Dancing. The author has encompassed the various arts like painting, dance, and poetry which are intimately connected with Indian music.