Hindu Music from Various Authors Part I / The Music Of India

SOURINDRO MOHUN TAGORE (1840-1914) Hindu Music from Various Authors Part I [For Private Circulation Only], compiled by Sourindro Mohun Tagore, 315 pp with plates, some folding, showing musical instruments, notations etc. Red leather binding profusely and ornately gilt-embossed and with gilt edges Publisher: Babu Punchanun Mukerjea, Calcutta, 1875 Although Volume I, it is complete in itself with 15 essays on Hindu music by Captain N. Augustus Willard, Sir William Jones, W. Ouseley, J. D. Paterson, Francis Fowke, Francis Gladwin, Lt-Col James Tod and others. The author states in the introduction that he would publish Part II if the first part is a success but evidently this was never published. 20 x 12.5 cms ATIYA BEGUM FYZEE-RAHAMIN The Music Of India by Atiya Begum Fyzee-Rahamin, London: Luzac & Co. 1925, pp. 95 + a folding table of swaras with 16 b&w plates of which 12 are based on paintings by author's husband, artist Fyzee Rahamin, Original green cloth with title gilt-embossed on spine: SOURINDRO MOHUN TAGORE
20 x 12.5 cms
The Music Of India
25 x 19 cms