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The Sangītaśiromani, “Crest-jewel of Music”, is a major Sanskrit work on Indian musicology, composed in 1428 a.d. by scholars from all parts of India who participated in a musicological congress organized by Sultan Malika Sāhi at Kada (near Allahabad). Designed as a standard text-book on music the work summarizes and explains the opinions of older and contemporary authors. It deals with all the aspects of traditional Indian musicology, such as tone-system, scale, melody, rhythm, composition, variation and vocal technique.

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Emmie te Nijenhuis, is a well-known European musicologist specialized in Indian Music. She published several books on the subject of Indian Musicology including Dattilam: A Compendium of Ancient Indian Music (Brill, 1970), Indian Music: History and Structure, (Brill, 1974), The Rāgas of Somanātha (Brill, 1976).

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