CONTENTS: Preface 9 Note on Transliteration 10 Introduction 11 I. THE FORMATIVE PERIOD 1. Sanskrit and Indo-Persian Literature on Music Emmie te Nijenhuis and Francoise 'Nalini'' Delvoye 35 2. Music Patronage in the Indo-Persian Context: A Historical Overview Madhu Trivedi 65 3. Musical Forms in Medieval India Emmie te Nijenhuis 95 4. The Emergence of Dhrupad Richard Widdess 117 5. Collections of Lyrics in Hindustani Music: The Case of Dhrupad Francoise 'Nalini Delvoye 141 6. The Origins and Early Development of Khayal Katherine Butler Brown 159 II. THE MODERN PERIOD 7. Hindustani Music: A Historical Overview of the Modern Period Joep Bor and Allyn Miner 197 8. A Mine of Music History from Nineteenth-Century Lucknow Regula Burckhardt Qureshi 221 9. Thumri. Ghazal, and Modernity in Hindustani Music Culture Peter Manuel 239 10. Dhadhis and Other Bowing Bards Daniel Neuman 253 11. Rampur as a Centre of Music Sulochana Brahaspati 267 12. Representing Hindu Music to the Colonial and Native Elite of Calcutta Charles Capwell 285 13. Music Schools and Societies in Bombay c. 1864-1937 Michael D. Rosse 313 14. The All-India Music Conferences of 1916-1925: Cultural Transformation and Colonial Ideology David Trasoff 331 15. Music and Music Drama in Maharashtra Ashok Da. Ranade 357 III. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 16 Sources on the Early History of the Tambur, Rabab, Sitar, and Sarod Allyn Miner 373 17. A Historical Account of the Fretted Vina Philippe Bruguiere 391 18. Early Indian Bowed Instruments and the Origin of the Bow Joep Bor 431 19. The History of Tabla James Kippen 459 IV. INDIAN MUSIC AND THE WEST 20. Indian Music and the West: A Historical Overview Gerry Farrell 481 21. A Harpsichord on the Banks of the Ganges: English Keyboard Instruments and the Collection of Hindostannie Airs lan Woodfield 499 22. Early Western Pioneers: John Foulds and Maud MacCarthy Neil Sorrell 511 23. Rabindranath Tagore and Frederik van Eeden: Reception of a Poet-King in the Netherlands Rokus de Croot 521 V. CONCEPTS AND THEORIES 24. Sargam Notations and Rag-Ragini Theory Harold Powers 579 25. The Construction, Reconstruction, and Deconstruction of Shruti Suvarnalata Rao and Wim van der Meer 673 Contributors 697 Illustrations 705 Index 709