TAGORE, Sourindro Mohun.

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Six Principal Ragas, Handsomely presented copy of the uncommon second edition, perhaps correctly the third, of this pioneering work of Indian musicology, first published in 1875. The author founded the Bengal Music School, 1871 and the Bengal Academy of Music, 1881. Here he offers analyses of the Indian raga system including melodies transcribed in his newly devised Indian notation with Sanskrit words, and Western notation with transliterated Sanskrit words.Sourindra Mohun Tagore (1840-1914) was a scion of the wealthy bhadralok "middle class" which emerged in Bengal under British rule, "an ideological construct which was created in response to the political and economic domination by the British on the one hand and the cultural leadership among the colonized people on the other... cultural leaders of the indigenous colonized people" (Bhattacharyya). He studied Sanskrit and English at Hindu College, Calcutta, graduating in 1858. Along with his formal studies "Tagore began learning the sitar from Lakshmi Narayan Mishra of Benaras at the age of 17 and continued studies in other aspects of classical music and musicology with the well-known scholar Kshetra Mohan Goswami. Both the teachers were upper-caste Brahmins so their high-caste and class affiliations were appropriate for their inclusion by the bhadralok modernizers. Tagore also learnt Western music from a German pianist and took much interest in collecting books and ancient manuscripts on Indian music theories and works on E

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