![]() I felt that at least an effort to discover the roots of such change would be valuable as a contribution to the study of art history and possibly to the sociology of culture. If we examine the different treatises through the centuries this vitality would appear to be a basic characteristic. This study proves the contrary: Indian music has a strong vitality. ![]() in India, are rather inert and that the art forms hardly ever change. It is often assumed that traditional cultures, as e. As a corollary I wanted to know how this variability could manifest itself as change in a relatively short and well-documented period. Therefore, one of my tasks was to assess the degree of variability in Indian music. ![]() In the course of time it also became obvious that different scholars and different musicians held divergent views on many basic concepts of Indian music. Most of my study and research have been devoted to the gradual refinement of this very understanding. I found, when I took up an interest in Indian music in 1967, that even protracted reading of the studies in English was not conducive to an understanding of the principles of performance. AIM In spite of a reasonably extensive literature in English' and Indian vernaculars, there are extremely few books on Indian music that can be considered of a scientific standard.
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