The Music of India - A scientific study - B. Chaitanya Deva

This is an attempt to bring, to bear a scientific attitude to Indian musicological problems. Tools and methods of modern science have been employed to probe into musical phenomena and Indian music history.
Concepts of the information theory and other statistical methods have been applied to study the classification and the forms of ragas with very promising results.
The book spans across questions of methodology, dynamics of history, musical scales, non-conscious elements in music, etc.
About the author: Dr. B. Chaitanya Deva was a Hindustani vocalist and an internationally reputed musicologist. He received his Ph.D. from Poona University for his researches in the psychoacoustics of speech and a summary of his dissertation was published in Zeitschrift Fur Phonetik of Berlin University