Chaturdandiprakashika
music theory text
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Indian music theory
- In South Asian arts: Theoretical developments
…melas was introduced, in the Chaturdandiprakashika (“The Illuminator of the Four Pillars of Music”), a text written in the middle of the 17th century. This system was based on the permutations of the tones and semitones, which had by this time been reduced to a basic 12 in the octave.…
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