Sangita Sampradaya Pradarsini (English Edition)

Sangita Sampradaya Pradarsini

The Sangita Sampradaya Pradarshini of Subbarama Dikshitar is a valuable text on South Indian Musicology.It was published in Telugu in the year, 1904. It contains a section on musicology, biographies of composers and short descriptions of the ragas of South Indian music that follow the scheme established by Venkatamakhin, the author of the treatise Caturdandi prakshika 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.  We have tried to incorporate all the Gamaka symbols (ornamentations)  and Svara notations as given in the original Edition. We have also tried to follow the original edition without any alterations. We have also given here the Vaggeyakara Caritamu or the Biographical accounts of Composers.

Technical and scholarly inputs at various stages of this project were generously provided by:

- Dr. N.Ramanathan, Professor and Head (Retd.), Department of Indian Music, University of Madras, Chennai, and
- Dr. R.S.Jayalakshmi, Lecturer (Retd.), Department of Indian Music, University of Madras, Chennai

Some footnotes, clearly marked by the symbol “ED ” that appear in this work, are results of their concrete suggestions. They were more than willing to help 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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