Brihaddeshi is a Classical Sanskrit text, dated ca. 6th to 8th century CE, on Indian classical music , attributed to Mataṅga Muni . It is the first text to speak directly of the raga and to distinguish marga ("classical") from desi ("folk") music. It also introduced sargam solfège (or solfa ), the singing of the first syllable of the names of the musical notes, as an aid to learning and performance. (The full names of the notes existed previously, for example as found in Natya Shastra.)
5-405: The author based his work on Bharata Muni 's Natya Shastra . His discussion of musical scales and micro-tonal intervals clarifies Bharata's work, and also clarifies Bharata's terse presentation of many issues related to śruti . The text uses a two-dimensional prastāra (matrix) to explain how the 7 notes of the octave map into 22 śrutis, with varying distances between notes. It also says that
10-522: A book "Matanga and His Work Brihaddesi" in 1992. Dwaram Bhavanarayana Rao published a Telugu translation and paraphrase in 2002. This article about a music publication is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bharata Muni Bharata ( Devanagari : भरत) was a muni (sage) of ancient India . He is traditionally attributed authorship of the influential performing arts treatise Natya Shastra , which covers ancient Indian dance , dramaturgy , poetics, and music . He
15-523: A finer subdivision in microtones has 66 śrutis; and that, in principle, the number of śrutis is infinite. The text also speaks of the division of the octave into 12 svaras . According to Prem Lata Sharma , this is the first known text to speak of 12 notes. The text of Brihaddeshi was edited by Prem Lata Sharma for the Indira Kalakendra series of original texts on the Indian arts and was published as
20-484: Is notable as an ancient encyclopedic treatise on the performing arts , which has influenced dance, music and literary traditions in India. It is also notable for its aesthetic "Rasa" theory, which asserts that entertainment is the desired effect of performance arts but not the primary goal and that the primary goal is to transport the individual in the audience into another parallel reality, full of wonder, where he experiences
25-402: Is thought to have lived between 200 BCE and 200 CE, but estimates vary between 500 BCE and 500 CE. Bharata is known only as being traditionally attributed authorship of the treatise Natya Shastra . All other early Sanskrit treatises were similarly attributed to mythical sages. The text draws on his authority, as existing in the public imagination. The Nāṭya Śāstra
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