Publications of the Scientific Research Department

The Department has published more than 50 scientific papers, concerning various aspects of speech, vocal and instrumental music, in different Indian and foreign journals. Scientists of the Department have presented papers in many national and international conferences and symposiums.

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Experimental Analysis of Shrutis from Performances in Hindustani Music by Asoke Kumar Datta, Ranjan Sengupta, Nityananda Dey and Dipali Nag. (103 pages, price: INR 150)

Publications of the Academic Research Department

ITC-SRA has been publishing an annual journal entitled, "Journal of Sangeet Research Academy" from 1980. The journal has been given a new avatar since 2005 - Ninăd. The journal includes papers presented in ITC-SRA's annual seminars as well as those contributed by authors on different aspects of Hindustani Classical Music. This journal today figures in the collection of the US Library of Congress.

The Sangeet Paridarshini Series of ITC-SRA takes care of the publication of scholarly and rare manuscripts to fulfill the task of widespread dissemination of musical scholarship.  Besides these series, ITC SRA's Academic Research Department also brings out other publications.

A significant wing of the Academic Research function is the Annual Musicological Seminar, which has provided a unique platform for joint deliberations by musicians, musicologists, researchers, teachers and students, since the 1980's. Papers presented at these seminars are compiled for publication at a later date.

The Academic Research Department, responsible for all the publications, also takes care of the Newsletter Parampara.

Highlights of Ninăd, Journal of the ITC-SRA (Vol. 21, December 2007):
1.	Connection of Ragas with Jatis	R K Das
2.	Capturing the aesthetic: Radial mappings for cellular automata music	Alexis Kirke and Eduardo Reck Miranda
3.	A methodology for automatic extraction of ‘meend’ from the performances in Hindustani Vocal Music	A K Datta, R Sengupta, N Dey and D Nag
4.	Influence of Tappa on Marathi Natya- Sangeet	Chaitanya Kunte
5.	Machine-embodied knowledge for music expression understanding	Luca Mion and Giovanni De Poli
6.	Australian aboriginal musical instruments: the didjeridu, the bullroarer and the gumleaf	Neville H. Fletcher
7	The major pentatonic (Bhupali/Mohana) and its derivative scales in the folk music of China, Indonesia and India	Monik Dorna, Slovakia

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SANGEET PARIDARSHINI SERIES

(Special 50% discount  until stocks last)

Bharatiya Sangeet ka Itihas (Hindi)

This epochal work by Dr. Thakur Jaidev Singh is an invaluable guide for all scholars of Indian music. It traces the lineage of Indian music to the Vedas and strings together the overtones and undertones of music from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Puranas, the Astadhyai (Panini) and Buddhist-Jain literature.
(406 pages, Discounted price: INR 150)




Indian Music (English)

This book by Dr Thakur Jaideva Singh deals with the history of Indian music beginning from the Indus Valley civilization. It sheds light on the music of the Vedic and epic ages as well as that found in the Buddhist and Jain sources, Tamil sources, Natya Shastra, Pouranic sources etc. It imparts information on the forms of musical instruments prevalent during those times. The work also tries to ascertain whether Indian music was subjected to foreign influences or not. The book contains detailed information about the authors, composers and musicians of the 9th to 20th centuries, both Hindustani and Carnatic, which will undoubtedly prove to be of immense interest and value to the researchers and students of Indian music. The work will be of interest and benefit to both the student-scholar and the layman.
(536 pages, Discounted price: INR 225).


Bharatiya Sangeet Shastra Ka Darshanparak Anusheelan (Hindi)


This book by Dr Vimla Musalgaonker is indispensable for both students and teachers of Indian music. It explains the basic musical concepts underlying the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Vedangas. ( 399 pages, Discounted price: INR 200).

 

Music Makers of Bhatkhande College of Hindustani Music (English)

With the decline of the Nawabs in Lucknow, music and dance were confined to professional women artistes. Art became taboo in respectable and cultured families. Pandit Bhatkande's mission to restore the arts to their pristine status and worthiness of devout pursuit inspired a movement to set up music colleges in Lucknow, Gwalior, Baroda and a number of other places.

It is this succession of dedicated and selfless music makers whom Dr. Susheela Misra vividly brings back to life in 20 nostalgic chapters in this book.
(only reference copy available)


ITC SRA PUBLICATIONS :

Nur Ratnakar

ITC-SRA has completed a unique Research Project to compile a bio-bibliographical survey of all accessible important writings on music, dance and theatre, in Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Deshi, Apabhramsa, Brajbhasha and Urdu. The late Prof. Shahab Sarmadee of Aligarh conducted this survey, titled 'Nur-Ratnakar' in two parts.

Prof. Shahab Sarmadee was the only eminent musicologist in India who was an authority on Sanskrit as well as on the Persian and Arabic sources of the history of music. Volume I of this survey covers the social and cultural evolution from Panini's time till 1399 A.D. It treads on hitherto uncharted terrain in the history of Indian Classical music and also critically examines well-known classics like the Natyashastra, Brihaddesi and Sangeetratnakar.

Volume II of Nur-Ratnakar , which is in the pipline, covers the era from 1399 A.D. It will provide an insight into the blossoming of folk music, the music of bhakti, the music of the sufis, the origin and metamorphosis of Dhrupad, Khayal and the merger of the Indian and the Turko-Persian forms of Dhrupad and Khayal.
(651 pages; Price : INR 795).



Amir Khusrau's Prose Writings on Music

Writings on Turco-Iranian and Indian music of his time lead to a rich definition of music in medieval India, not only as a science but also as a fine art, in its theoretical and performing aspects, with some information on its etiquette and its aesthetic appreciation. (73 pages; Price: INR 150).

Khayal Gharanas

The basis of this book is a thousand hours of bandishes of various artistes for the Ford Foundation Gharana Project. Analytical studies of various gharanas supported with illustrations from ITC SRA archives as well as the Ford Foundation project recordings in audio cassettes have been used as source material. (58 pages; Price: INR 33).