Full recording of a seminar organized held at the Department of music, Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India) on 25-27 March 1985. The aim of this seminar was to initiate a dialogue between two experts of Indian music history working from Sanskrit and Persian sources, resp. Dr. Prem Lata Sharma, the head of the Department of music in BHU, and Dr. Shahab Sarmadee, a fellow of the Department of history at Aligarh Muslim University. Born in 1914, the latter had been engaged by the International Society for Traditional Arts Research (ISTAR) on the first English translation of Faquirullah's Mankutuhal and Rag Darpan.
Keywords
musicology, history, music theory, Persian, Urdu, Sanskrit, Indian, BHU, Banaras, Aligarh, India
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