Dr.S.BHAGYALEKSHMY, M.A.,Ph.D, hails from a mu- sical family. After completing her Masters Degree in Music from Kerala University, she was awarded her Doctorate in Music from Kerala University. She has authored several books on Carnatic Music in English and Malayalam. Promi- nent among them being Ragas in Carnatic Music, Lakshanagranthas in Music, Approach to Bharathnatayam etc. which have become defacto source reference books in the areas.
Her books in Malayalam on Ragachikitsa has been well appreciated by the Medical profession and the musicians alike. She had edited the encyclopaedia of culutre prepared during her stint at State Institute for Childrens literature, where she retired as editor.
She had prepared books with notations for composi- tions of Tyagaraja, Muthuswamy Dikshitar, Purandaradasa, Swati Tirunal, Syama Sastri in Englsih and Malayalam. The Preliminary series Karnatic Music reader in 4 parts in En- glish and Karnataka Sangeetha patamala in 6 parts in Malayalam, have been well apreciated by the learners. These books have gone into several editions. She has edited and brought out the complete works of Tyagaraja, Muthuswamy Dikshitar and Maharaja Swati Tirunal in Malayalam.
She has rendered several set of Cds for learning Karnatic Music, Compositions of Tyagaraja, Muthuswamy Dikshitar, Ma- haraja Swati Tiriunal, Syama Sastri, Pancharathna kritis and an Audio encyclopaedia for learning Ragas, the Ragadhara - audio encyclopaedia for Carnatic Mela ragas, in English.
She presents reegular musical concerts on stages, All India Radio Doordarsan, and and Several television channels. She is an accredited B High artist of All India Radio. She is also an accred- ited Doctoral Research guide for several universities. More than 15 students have been awarded Ph.D under her guidance.
Indian Music has been included in the curriculum as source reference material for graduate and post graduate studies many years before.
The Essays have been written by me during my course of Publsihing and presented to various audiences and as introduc- tion to my several books. They also form set of lerning maerials given to my studients for their examinations to different com- petitive examinations like UGC New examinatons, Scholarship tests, and general purposes. They present a cream of an overview of Indian Music as a whole and comprises the various studies on Hindustani Music, Carnatic Music, Tamil Music, Bengali Music. Apart from these the articles on Personages like Tyagaraja, Muthuswamy Dishitar, Syama Sastri, Maharaja Swati tirunal con- tain much essential and new material for every learner. Also the Articles on Modern Music, Global Music education, Eminent Com- posers and Musicians contain information every music enthusi- ast should know. These articles in toto will form an Introduction and overview of Indian Music as a whole.
I Hope this new edition of the book will be welcomed by the prospective students as well, and enable them to achieve better results in their endeavour. I will be only happy to hear from them their views and suggestions for making this book more fruitful.
I am extremely thankful to my brother Sri. M.Easwaran, who took the interest and initiative for coming up with the sec- ond revised edition of this work. As always he is the main inspira- tion and encouragement for the preparation of many of my books. I am thankful to Smt.M.Girija, wife of Sri.Easwaran, CBH Publi- cations, for taking this work for publishing in a very limited time.
I also my express my gratitude to her.
Last but not least, I am thankful to God, My parents and all my Teachers, who enabled me to completethis work and made this publication possible.
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