Indian Music: Books/Scores
Guide to Indian music collections in Columbia University Libraries
Books
Books in printed format can be located in the Columbia University library catalog by setting format to "books." Representative titles include:
Living idioms in Hindustani music : a dictionary of terms and terminology by Call Number: Music Reference ML108 .A52 1990gISBN: 0706951743Publication Date: 1990 c1989
Light of the universe : essays on Hindustani film music by Call Number: Offsite ML2075 .A95 2012gISBN: 8188789070Publication Date: 2012- Indian music through the ages : 2400 BC to the present era byCall Number: Offsite ML338 .B256 2012ISBN: 8188827320Publication Date: 2012
Time Measure and Compositional Types in Indian Music by
Call Number: Offsite ML338 .C413 1997ISBN: 8186471022Publication Date: 1997-01-01Music as speech : an ethnomusicolinguistic study of India by
Call Number: Offsite ML3849 .C49 1988gISBN: 8170130484Publication Date: 1988- The music of Orient and Occident; essays towards mutual understandings byCall Number: Offsite ML338.C86 M9 1935aPublication Date: 1935
The music and musical instruments of southern India and the Deccan by Call Number: Music and Offsite ML338 .D27 1974Publication Date: 1891Krishna's musicians : musicians and music making in the temples of Nathdvara, Rajasthan by
Call Number: Music ML3197 .G37 1997ISBN: 817304161XPublication Date: 1997-01-01
Global Bollywood : travels of Hindi song and dance by Call Number: Butler Stacks PN1993.5.I8 G54 2008ISBN: 0816645787Publication Date: 2008-06-16
Begum Akhtar : the story of my ammi by Call Number: Offsite ML420.B139 H57 2005gISBN: 8130901722Publication Date: 2005Saṅgītacūḍāmaṇi : a work on Indian music by
Call Number: Offsite 892.08 G118 no.128Publication Date: 1958Gramophone Company's First Indian Recordings, 1899-1908 by
Call Number: Butler Stacks and Offsite ML156.4.N3 I547 1994ISBN: 8171547281Publication Date: 1994-01-01The European airs of Muthuswamy Dixitar by
Call Number: Offsite ML410.M973 A3 1990gPublication Date: 1990
Bards, ballads and boundaries : an ethnographic atlas of music traditions in West Rajasthan by Call Number: Music and Butler Stacks ML338.7.R35 N48 2006gISBN: 1905422075Publication Date: 2007-03-08
The Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music by Call Number: Music ML338 .P423 2009ISBN: 019569998XPublication Date: 1999-04-29- Ragadhana : an alpha-numberical directory of ragas byCall Number: Offsite ML102.R2 P47 1993Publication Date: 1993
- Rāgalakṣaṇasaṅgraha = (Collection of rāga descriptions) : from treatises on music of the Mēla period with translation and notes byCall Number: Music ML338 .R233 2004ISBN: 8175255366Publication Date: 2004
Keywords and concepts : Hindustani classical music by
Call Number: Music Reference and Butler Stacks ML102.H56 R36 1990ISBN: 8185002126Publication Date: 1990-01-01The story of Indian music and its instruments, a study of the present & a record of the past; together with Sir William Jones celebrated treatise in full, with 19 plates chiefly of instruments, music illustrations, and a map by
Call Number: Offsite Missionary Research Library Qal RPublication Date: [1929]Saṅgīti śabda koṣa = Dictionary of musical terms by
Call Number: Music Reference ML100 .R8713 2004Publication Date: 2004Also available at the Internet Archive.A dictionary of South Indian music and musicians by
Call Number: Music Reference ML106.I5 S3Publication Date: 1952-3 volumes- Saṅgītaratnākara : "Sarasvatī" vyākhyā aura anuvādasahita byCall Number: Offsite ML338 .S2715 2000gPublication Date: 2000-
- Indian music : eminent thinkers on core issues byCall Number: Music ML338.1 .S29 2002Publication Date: 2002
Contributions of saints and seers to the music of India by
Call Number: Offsite ML338 .S29 1996ISBN: 817391110XPublication Date: 19962 v.My music, my life by
Call Number: Milstein and Music ML338 S475 M9 1969bPublication Date: [1969, c1968]- Hindī philma gīta kośa = Encyclopaedia of Hindi film songs byCall Number: Offsite ML128.M7 S55 1980Publication Date: 1986-1991-5 v/
- The goddess Māriyamman̲ in music and in sociology of religion byCall Number: Butler Stacks BL1225.M3715 S68 1999gISBN: 3885870258Publication Date: 1999
Bharatiya sangeet: raga nidhi; encyclopedia of Indian ragas, a comparative study of Hindustani & Karnatak ragas by
Call Number: South Asian Studies Reading Room ML338 .S78Publication Date: 1956-[66]4 v.Mysore as a seat of music by
Call Number: Offsite ML338.7.K37 V44 1992ISBN: 8185381178Publication Date: c1992
Rāgas which emerged during the post-trinity period and their lakṣaṇa by Call Number: Offsite ML338 .V43 2008gPublication Date: 2008Music in India : the classical traditions by
Call Number: Offsite ML338 .W32 2001gISBN: 8185054258Publication Date: 2001Appreciating India's music; an introduction to the music of India, with suggestions for its use in the churches of India by
Call Number: Offsite ML338 .W53 1957Publication Date: 1957
Scores
The Columbia University library catalog allows for searches by music score format. Here are a few representative examples of items in the catalog:
- Bhojapurī samskāra-gītaSampādaka Haṃsakumāra Tivārī, Rādhāvallabha Śarmā. Patanā : Bihāra-Rāshṭrabhāshā- Parishad, 1977
Anthology of Bhojpuri fold songs connected with various Hindu rites of passage; some with musical letter notation.
Offsite I-H 78-900325 - Carnātic music: pallavi tradition. Karnāṭaka Saṅkīta pallavi sampiratāyam : pala rāka, taḷaṅkaḷil sāhittiya neraval, jāti vin̲yāsam, an̲ulōma pratilōmam, svara pstāram ivar̲r̲ai viḷakkum 25 pallavikaḷ.Āciriya Ār. Raṅkarāmān̲uja Ayyaṅkār ; Utavi āciriai Patmā Varatan̲.
Cen̲n̲ai, 1970.
Rendition of pallavi in Karnatic music, where the artist improvises variations in the tempo and in the notes; with letter notation.
Offsite I-T 72-926095 - Dokhno gāna : āñcalika bhāshā saṅgitāTr̥pti Brahma
Dakshiṇa Bārāśata, 24 Paragaṇā : Balarāma Brahma, 1392- [1985-<1986 >
Songs in Bengali dialect of south 24 Parganas District, West Bengal
Offsite IB 85-904878 - Compositions of Anai-Ayya brotherscompiled by T. Viswanathan & T. Sankaran ; [editor, Karaikudi S. Subramanian].
Madras : Brhaddhvani, 1990.
Musical compositions of Anai Ayyar and Ayyavayyar of 19th cent., Karnatic style.
Offsite 73.1 In2 An13 - [Be-ḳol ʻarev] = Songs of the Jews of Calcutta[compiled by] Rahel Musleah.
[Cedarhurst, N.Y.] : Tara Publications, c1991.
Synagogue music
Offsite 73.53 B35 - Saṅgīta milana : guru-śishya paramparā śikshaṇa paddhatiMilana Debanātha.
Lakhanaū : Brajavāsi Prakāśana, 1989-
Various ragas in Hindustani music; words in Hindi with musical letter notation.
Offsite 73.1 In2 D3 - Sitar and its compositionsVinay Kumar Aggarwal, Alka Nagpal.
Delhi : Sanjay Prakashan, 2004.
Offsite 45.1 Ag38 Si8 - 108 kritis of Sri Tyagarajatext and notation in Devanagari script with gamaka signs by C.S. Ayyar ; foreword by Musiri Subrahmanya Iyer.
[Madras : C. Subramanya Iyer], 1955-1959.
Offsite 73.1 In2 T953
Public Domain Scores
- IMSLP Petrucci Music Library"Sharing the world's public domain music." Includes "nationality" search facet.