Acoustic Mythologies of The Natyasastra: Text of Celestial Music

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11/04/2007

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Table of Contents Acoustic Mythologies of The Natyasastra: Text of Celestial Music 	 Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The Indian Aesthetic tradition
  3. The Hindustani genealogy of celestial music
  4. The musical traditions of India
    1. Gandharva Sangeet
    2. The laws of aesthetics in the Natyasastra
    3. The music of the tabla
    4. The musical range of the tabla
  5. The differentiation of time in Hindustani music
    1. The slower tempo
    2. The relationship between cosmic time and musical tala
  6. Conclusion

Abstract

Concerning the use of musical rhythm as a sadhana, a path to liberation, one preliminary distinction to make is between the tantric means of rasa and the yogic means of bhakti; The mythological tradition inherited by Hindustani music distinguishes between gana (music for pleasure) and gandharva (music for devotional ritual). While the former does not accrue to the performer the spiritual merit (adrsta) of ritual offering, it does create the occasion for the rasa that is explained by the tantra of Abhinavagupta to be a means to the 'taste of the divine' (brahmasvada).

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