Hindustani Music
- Author: Ahmad, Najma Perveen
Hindustani Music
- Author: Ahmad, Najma Perveen
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During the Medieval period, Indian Music went through a meta¬morphosis, blending in itself beautifully the Arab, Persian, and Central Asian influences, and which gave birth to new forms and styles which continue to survive even today. Dr. Najma Perveen Ahmad has analysed the development of Hindustani Music during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ad and has studied such texts as Raag Darpan, Tohfat-ul-Hind, Usulun-Naghmat-e-Aasifi and Naadirat-e-Shahi. What she provides in the pages of the book is an authentic survey of music during the seven-teenth and eighteenth centuries, and its impact on contemporary Hindustani Music.
Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction and Historical Background
- Section A
- Import Manuscript and Books of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- 1 Raag Darpan
- II Tohfat-ul-Hind
- III Usulun-Naghmat-e-Asifi
- IV Nadirat-e-Shahi and Other Manuscripts and Books
- Section B
- Development of Forms and Styles in Hindustani Music during Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- V Dhruvapad Its Origin and Development
- VI Khayal Its Origin and Development
- VII Other Forms and Styles
- Section C
- Musicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- VIII Names and Description of Musicians and their Musicals Styles
- Bibliography
