From Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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red cloth hardbound 4to ~ 4º (quarto). (large book). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. vg cond. binding square & tight. covers have a few spots. edges aged & dusty. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in good cond. 2" tear front top corner flap, wrinkling, minor soiling, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing (NAP). xiv+108p+11 b&w figures & 48 b&w plates. (plates at end of text). bibliography. index. archeology. ancient history. history of india. religion. art history. history of music. musicology. antiques. mythology. ~ Musical Instruments in India is a phenomenal, indeed appreciable imagination, thought, and artistic genius have gone into devising prodigious variety of musical instruments. The Indian musical instruments, a perfect fusion of imagination and unity of purpose is the truest and indubitable proof of the adroitness of the art manufacturers of the day fitting well within textual framework. The present book is an outcome of an indefatigable research of the author of the different varieties of musical instruments impeccably delineated in the early Indian plastic art. The study of them, conditioned as these are by the aesthetic consciousness of the people and the congenial economic stability of their opulent society with which they pursued the pleasures of life, cannot but be of great sociological importance. The book, comprising various chapters exemplifies meticulously the enormous details of each item of the musical instruments. The musical instruments covered under the classification viz., stringed (tala), percussion (anaddha), wind (susira) and solid (ghana) form the subject matter of the study. The indigenous traits and the foreign impacts on the Indian musical instruments are brilliantly visualised. To achieve this end the sculptures of Sanchi, Bharhut, Amaravati, Gandhara, Nagarjunakonda, Mathura and the paintings of Ajanta supplemented by the literary data and other archaeological evidences have all been brought painstakingly within the compass of the study. Written in vivid and pellucid style, the visualisation of musical instruments is pulsating. The coverage from 2nd century B.C. to 6th~7th centuries A.D. registers all trends and tendencies in sounds and models of the musical instruments. The book is bound to be of great value to the students of archaeology, musicology and art~history; and for the common reader its fascination lies in the intense human and cultural interest that the subject inevitably energises. Seller Inventory # 9181703
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF INDIAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Publisher: Delhi. 1985. Swadesh Prasad Singhal / Sundeep Prakashan
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
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