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Old 08-20-2013, 10:12 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Zack View Post
By scientific studies, do you mean, FFA type stuff, with math-ings and frequency graphs and whatnot, or do you mean Overviews of Hindustani theory?

If you mean theory and practice, there's an excellent text from 1898, by Bhavánráv A. Pingle, entitled "Indian Music," which goes over waaaaaay more than I could absorb.

Best of all, you can get it free as a pdf from google books. Or at least you could a few years ago, I'm assuming you still can....
I meant closer to the first, though I don't know what FFA stands for, and although the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive (?).

The book is still free on Google Books, though. When I have time...
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