THE JOURNAL OF T H E 0 1 USK ACADEMY MADRAS A QUARTERLY DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCE AND ART OF MUSIC Vol. XXI 1950 Parts I-IV “ I dw ell not in Vaikuntha, nor in the hearts of Yogis, nor in the su n ; (but), where my Bhaktas sing, there be I, Narada ! ” ED IT E D BY T. V. SUBBA RAO. s.*.. B.L., AND V. RAGHAVAN. M.A., PH.D. 1951 PUBLISHED BY THE MUSIC' ACADEMY, MADRAS 115-E, MOW3RAYS ROAD,* MADRAS-! 4 Annual Subscription:—Inland Rs. 4 ; Foreign 8 shs. Post paid. NOTICE 411 correspondence should be addressed to Dr. V. Raghavan, Joint Editor, Journal of the Music Academy. Articles on musical subjects are accepted for publication on the understanding that they are contributed solely to the Journal of the Music Academy. All manuscripts should be legibly written or preferably type­ written (double-spaced—on one side of the paper only) and should be signed by the writer (giving his address in full). 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S. A y y a r 64- 72 P o i n t s o f A f f i n i t y b e t w e e n H i n d u s t h a n i a n d C a r n a t i c M u s ic B y P a n d it R a t a n J a n k a r 73— 87 Carnatic Ragas from a New A ngle—Sankarabharana B y K. V. Ramachandran 88— 99 Carnatic Ragas and the Textual Tradition By K. V. Ramachandran 99— 106 Apcrva Ragas of Tyagaraja’s Songs B y K. V. Ramachandran 107— 109 K s h e t r a j n a B y P r o f . V is s a A p p a R ao 110-129 J a t i s v a r a S a h i t y a s o f M u t h u s w a m i D i k s h i t a r B y P r o f . P . S a m b a m u r t h i 1 30— 135 V i e t n a m e s e M u s i c B y J e a n V a r n o u x 136—138 T h e M u s i c o f t h e P e m s i a n s B y D a m ' B o . 139-142 V i e t n a m e s e M u s ic I n s t r u m e n t s —I llustration F a c in g PagB 140 The Music of Assam B y K. N. D a s 143—180 The Hastam uktavali of Sobhankara B y D r . V. Raghavan ... 181 The Non-M usical W orks of some leading Mrsio W r i t e r s B y D r . V. Raghavan ... 182V-183 S r i M u t h u s w a m i D i k s h i t a r ' s K r i t i s Edited By Vina Vidwan A. Sundaram Iyer 184—189 T he Music W orks o f S am a n n a S u ri B y D r. V. R a g h a v a n 190— 214 The Kandyan Dance—Illustrated B y D r. V. Raghavan ... 215—222 A p p e n d i x : I n d e x t o t h e c o n t e n t s (C ontribution ,* a n d A u t h o r s ) o f t h e J o u r n a l o f t h e M a d r a s M u s ic A c a d e m y V o l 3 , X I — X X THE JOURNAL A OF THE MUSIC ACADEMY, MADRAS Vol. X V III THE SRI TYAGARAJA CENTENARY COMMEMORATION VOLUME ILLUSTRATED) Rs. FOUR ONLY The Visvai uirati, Santiniketan, says c The Music Academy of Madras deserves the best congratulations of 3II lovers of music in this country for furnishing a fairly detailed study of Tvagaraja and his contribution to the music world. The Ufe-story of 1 Veggeyakara is in a way the personified history of the m usic of his days. The present special number of tne Madras Music Academy not o d Iv supplies us with the dates acid faets of the great life of a saint and an epoch-making musician but also presents to a serious student of music, a model plan for taking up the study of musieai compositions and their authors. Let all lovers and students of music, both in North and South India, derive inspiration trom a critical study of this commemoration volume. Parts hv] the xxiii madras music conference, 1949 to you will Have, we are sure, given you ail the information regarding the nature and extent of our activities. We fervently hope that you and your Government who have the good of the people so much at heart and endeavour to seeure their amelioration by advancing etrltura.1 progress as well as material prosperity and moral well being, s *■ allwS will not he slow to accept our proferred co-operation with heartiness I % commensurate with our status.'' lfi 1 im atw,fla >0 H© then requested the Premier to declare open the Twenty third Conference of the Academy^aud the series of concerts. * i nw Sri K. V. Krishnaswami Aiyar presented the address to the Premier enclosed in a beautiful silver casket. „ - The Hon. Sri Kumaraswa'mr Raja then inaitgufatPd the Conference. h<no£fht Hon. Sri Kumaraswami Rajn said : r u Let me offer rily heart-felt thanks to the Mhsic iAcRdfetoy fbr having invited me to inaugurate this, the Twentythird Annual gathering of the Conference of the experts and loVers of hiufeie.' The invitation, I consider, is a rare honour to me. When I got the invitation, I had my own hesitation dn accepting it I t>ecatt£e I was conscious of my limitations to fulfil the task assigned to me. On Uh occasion like this, when the savants and experts ill music and its allied fine arts have gathered to celebrate the annual music-festivfcl, it would be bat appropriate that the inauguration of the same is performed by one eminently fitted for it by virtue of his attainments in music and fine arts. I am one who cannot boast of having had any training! in singing or dancing.5 But I can boast of one qualification justifying my association’ with this congregation of musicians, nwatefyv'"jaWcfL'tiai'J'' jiusicS^';-Car8. Atid 1 can unhesitatingly proclaim that I do not beloffjj to the grou^T *o whom music is a thing unknown. " My natural attraction.to music and my sense of appreciation of good music have impelled me not to disobey the call, especially when it came from the august body th*t is working with untiring energy for the last quarter of a century for the development and popularisation of our classical music. W ien [ rise to say a few words addressing this learned gathering on this occasion, I do not pose myself as one competent to give ytu gn>dhi,nce matters relating to the science or technique . music. But r ; *,h?sire is more ■ w 4 THE JOURNAL OF THE MADRAS MUSIC ACADEMY [VOL. XXI / 7. BHT [V J to see you—music experts, and music lovers—all assem m one of ‘plahbi hrid to wish1 your Conference and its deliberations all success. vm imtU aqoii v.wnovioi srf a -iwntoa l o o l inert xn bn® 01 u J An »if J J® jfapoi o^ Jtkiotjq odifp bqog ®v/<d odw imummvof) WQ'i bn/i gaion “ $$uaic being a divine art, it is but appropriate that this music 9p[p]^ated with all earnestness, , p very ancient time has bepn nn^tu^ilg music and dance with such an intensive devptiqn tjh^t they ape always looked upon as things divine. Fine arts, including dance i and (.ttrastd, have been the rich cultural heritage o# ihdtii Our conception is that the origin of music is ihatwitli isww>n®l%' is df divine origin, traced to the Supreme Being manifested, in the Trirtiiy of brahma, Vishnu ahd Siva, epch of Hjs said manifestations being held in close association with music.