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Volume : III, Issue : V, June - 2013

ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF INDIAN MUSIC IN T HE EARLY PERIODS: A BIRD'S EYE VIEW

SHEETAL MORE

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

Music plays a vital role in the life of men. The sound that evolves out of music gives a sensual feeling in every person due to its sublime effect. In the words of Sir Hurber Perry, “ the very fact of musical utterance, implies a genuine expansion of the nature of the human being and is in a varying degree a trustworthy revelation of the particular likings, tastes, and sensibilities of the being that gives vent to it." This being the significance and importance of music, the music that evolved and developed in each country has its own historical, socio, cultural background basing on its evolution and practices. This paper is an attempt to study subtly the origins of Indian Music in the early periods especially that of the ancient and Vedic periods.

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SHEETAL MORE, (2013). ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF INDIAN MUSIC IN T HE EARLY PERIODS: A BIRD'S EYE VIEW. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. V, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2600.pdf

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  1. S.G Kanhere: Some Remarks on Indian Music, Bulletin of Social Oriental Studies, Vol.4, No.1, 1926, p.105.
  2. Ram Avatar Veer : The Music of India( 6,000 B.c. to 1,000 A.d.) Vol I, 1986, pp. 18-20
  3. Pt . Shiv Daya l Ba t i sh: Hi s tory and Theory of Indi an Mus i c ava i l abl e a t http://raganet.com/Issues/2/history2.html visited on 27.5.2012
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  5. Ibid p.218.
  6. For example, the two musical instruments, i.e., the flute in the hands of Krishna and the damaru in the hands of Lord Mahadeva, the vina in the hands of Goddess Saraswathi are considered as divine even today and are the most sought after instruments that are used commonly in Indian music.
  7. Pt. Shiv Dayal Batish see n2 at parts 2-6 , also see http://golam178.hubpages.com/hub/freemusic24, browsed on 15.6.2012.
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  13. http://www.enlightengroup.org/the-four-vedas.html
  14. a note recited in high pitch is called as udat. It is the symbol of vertical linemarked over the note which is to be pronounced in high pitch.
  15. Note recited in low pitch is called anudat It is symbolized by a horizontial line marked under the note to be pronounced in low pitch
  16. The Horizontal line has been shown as the sign of anudat In order to understandable to common man, these scales were represented in numerals as 1,2 and 3.
  17. Ram Avtar Veer: The Music of India ( Vol.1) ( I edn) 1986, pp 41-83
  18. See J.Chandrasekharan: Indian Music : Its Origin and Growth (Part I) available at : http://www.libraryofyoga.com/bitstream/handle/123456789/438/MSc.2030405.Chandrasekaran%20J.p df?sequence=1 visited on 5.5.2012.
  19. Romesh C. Dutt: Early Hindu Civilization ( B.C. 3000 to 320) 1927, p.118
  20. http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/RgVeda.html
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  22. S chandrasekharan, op. cit n.23
  23. Some scholars are of the view that the above three notes did correspond to the llaukik notes rishava , nishada (N) and Sadja (S) of frequency proportion 10/9.8/9,and 1. For details see Arun Bhattacharya op.cit. n 15 at p.21-24.
  24. This is a total modification of a word;Splitting a word Elongating a word after splitting it and the same word is repeated twice or thrice.
  25. http://www.archive.org/details/yajnavalkyasmrit00yj visited on 15.7.2012
  26. O. Gosvami: The Story of Indian Music : Its Growth and Synthesis; 1957 pp1-5

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