Sangita Sampradaya Pradarsini
The Sangita Sampradaya Pradarsini of Subbarama Dikshitar is a valuable text on South Indian Musicology.It was published in Telugu in the year, 1904. It contains sections on musicology, biographies of composers and short descriptions of the ragas of South Indian music that follow the scheme established by Venkatamakhin and his descendants and followers.It also has notated compositions to illustrate these ragas. It celebrated 100 years of its publication in the year 2004.To commemorate the event, we generated an English version of this work. The English web edition is based on the original Telugu version and includes all the Gamaka symbols (ornamentations) and Svara notations as given in the original Edition. We have also given here the Vaggeyakara Caritamu or the Biographical accounts of Composers.
We would like to thank the following stawarts for their contributions: - Prof.S.R.Janakiraman, Musician-Musicologist, Chennai - Translation and Critical Commentary Technical and scholarly inputs at various stages of this project were generously provided by:
- Dr. N.Ramanathan,Musicologist, Chennai, and
- Dr. R.S.Jayalakshmi, Vina Vidushi Chennai
Some footnotes, clearly marked by the symbol “ED ” that appear in this work, are results of their concrete suggestions. They helped us clarify many technical questions we had on several aspects. We record our sincere and heartfelt thanks to them both for their continued support and constant encouragement.
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Updated version of Volume III, Appendix and Vaggeyakara Caritram uploaded 06/04/2011
