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Article: The Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music.(Review)
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The Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music. By Ludwig Pesch. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xvii, 376 p. ISBN 0-19-564382-8. $39.95.]
Newcomers to the music of the Indian subcontinent often find the many music traditions bewilderingly diverse and the music terminology and theory highly complex. The problem lies both in a social diversity that lends the music to categorization and in music that transcends clear style boundaries. Two of the most common conceits of this musical cornucopia are the classical music traditions of North and South India (Hindustani sangit and Karnataka sangita, respectively). These two porous traditions not only ...