The Caturdandiprakasika of Venkatamakhin (2 Vols.)

by Venkatamakhin

CATURDANDIPRAKASIKA of Venkatamakhin is a fundamental treatise of Karnataka music and marks the rearguard in the renaissance of Indian music. It has launched a crucial, conceptual revolution which has metamorphosed this musical system into an enduring and attractive PADDHATI. It has been profoundly influencng every musician, musicologist and composer of South India ever since it was written. This influence will remain undimmed in the foreseeable future. PROF. R. SATHYANARAYANA is an internationally acclaimed authority on Indian music and dancing. He is broadbased in several physical sciences, humanistic and indoogical disciplines. He has published numerous books, including critical editions, translation, commentaries, annotations, monographs, original creative works and research papers on Indian music, dancing and other cognate subjects. He is widely acclaimed for his systematic contributions in the intradisciplinal and interdisciplinal bases of modern Indian musicology and danceology.