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The Body of the Musician

An Annotated Translation and Study of the Piṇḍotpatti-prakaraṇa of Śārngadeva’s Sangītaratnākara

Makoto Kitada (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

II, 350 Seiten

2012
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-0343-0319-4 (ISBN)

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The Sangitaratnakara ("The Ocean of Music") written by Sarngadeva in the 13th century is the most important theoretical work on Indian classical music. Its prologue, the Pindotpatti-prakarana ("The Section of the Arising of the Human Body"), deals with the Indian science of the human body, i.e. embryology, anatomy, and the Hathayogic heory of Cakras. The sources of this work are found in the classical medical texts (Ayurveda) such as Caraka, Susruta and Vagbhata, the Hathayogic texts as well as in the encyclopaedic texts (Purana). After philologically analyzing the mutual relation and background of these texts, the author demonstrates the reasons why the human body is described in this musicological work. His investigation reveals the Indian mystic thought of body and sound. This study, although an Indological one, is an attempt to answer the universal question what music is, i.e. how music is created in the human body, what the effect of music on the human body is, and what music aims at. The second half of the book consists of a translation of the original text of the Pindotpatti-prakarana, including commentaries, with plenty of annotations.

Makoto Kitada studied linguistics and indology at Tokyo and Halle Universities. Since 2011 he lectures at Osaka University (Section for Urdu). Makoto Kitada is a research fellow of the Eastern Institute, Tokyo. His research interests are South Asian languages and literature, such as Urdu, Bengali, and Sanskrit. He plays Hindustani music (Sarod) and is interested in the musical aspect of oral literature.

Contents: Sangitaratnakara (SR) and its Pindotpatti-prakarana - Sivagita (SG), the text parallel to the SR's embryologico-anatomical verses - The sources of the SR. Common source text of SR and SG - Comparison with medical (Ayurveda) and non-medical texts - Anatomical theory of vocal manifestation by Indian ancient musicologists - Embryology in musicological works.

«[...] Kitada s work is distinguished not only by formidable scholarship but also sharp critical judgment. This will be a book to be used by all serious scholars of musicology and choreology as well as biology in the Sanskritic tradition.»
(Mandakranta Bose, Orientalische Literaturzeitung 112/2017)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.7.2012
Reihe/Serie	Welten Süd- und Zentralasiens / Worlds of South and Inner Asia / Mondes de l'Asie du Sud et de l'Asie centrale ; 3
Verlagsort	Bern
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 225 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	annotated • Asiengesellschaft • Body • Bronkhorst • Hinduism • Indian • Indian Philosophy and Spiritualism • Johannes • Karénina • Kitada • Kollmar • Makoto • Medical Ethnology • musician • Musicological Ethnology • Paulenz • Pindotpatti • Piṇḍotpatti • Pi??otpatti • prakara?a • prakarana • prakaraṇa • Sangitaratnakara • Sangītaratnākara • Sarngadeva's • Sarngadeva’s • Śarngadeva’s • Śārngadeva’s • Schweizerische • Study • Translation
ISBN-10	3-0343-0319-X / 303430319X
ISBN-13	978-3-0343-0319-4 / 9783034303194
Zustand	Neuware