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About The Book -: This book deals mainly with the music styles of North India. Having been written at the beginning of the 20th century this reference to North India includes those areas which are known as Pakistan. Though it touches on the music forms of South India namely Carnatic music its man focus is on the music of the North. Author in this book has dealt with each aspect of Indian classical music and has traced its origins through history which he has taken to include the Greek influence that had once been very common in India. In the tweleve chapters of this book he has not dealt with then history but with many major facets of the composition of this form also. This is followed by several chapters dedicated to the study of Indian Music as a whole. This encompasses the study of melody, composition, raga, mode, scale and rhythm which are the most basic essence of the classical form. All in all, this entirebook covers the whole gamut of Indian music as it is played in the North of the sub-continent even today. About The Author -: Arthur Henry Fox Strangways (1859 –1948) was an English musicologist, translator, editor and music critic.After a career as a schoolmaster, Fox Strangways developed an interest in Indian music, and in the years before the First World War he did much to bring Rabindranath Tagore to wider attention. He was an army officer and educated at Wellington College and Balliol College Oxford. For the next twenty-six years, he was a schoolmaster. During his time at Wellington he visited India, and became interested in Indian music. After he left Wellington he returned to India for eight months in 1911, collecting material for a book, The Music of Hindostan (India Society, 1914), which Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians described in 2013 as "still a classic on its subject. He became Honorary Secretary of the India Society. The Title 'THE MUSIC OF HINDOSTAN written/authored/edited by A. H. FOX STRANGWAYS', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121299893 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 408 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. . Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-