[Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover, large octavo, blue cloth boards, black spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 625 pp. Good book, spine lightly faded and soiled, text block bottom edge lightly soiled, front free endpaper rubber-stamped, introductory pages (1-57 pp.) with some underlined sections and margin notes; good dust jacket, spine chipped with open tears at ends, joints rubbed and an open tear to lower cover joint, edges chipped with 1/8" closed tears and 1/2" open tear to fore edge top corner, lower cover fore edge corners with 1/8" open tears, flap seams rubbed and chipped with some small tears, with all faults. A critical study of the improvisational method in North Indian musical practices and techniques, detailing the settings and performative environment in which the ragas are played.

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Bookseller: Better Read Than Dead (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2230
Title: The Ragas of North India
Author: Walter Kaufman
Format/Binding: Hardcover, large octavo, blue cloth boards, black spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 625 pp
Book Condition: Used - Good book, spine lightly faded and soiled, text block bottom edge lightly soiled, front free endpaper rubber-stamped, introducto
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Place of Publication: [Bloomington, IN]
Date Published: 1968
Keywords: North Indian Ragas

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