Music of the Nations: A Comparative Study

English234. About the. The Music of the Nations is a comparative study of music and musical systems of the civilized world. Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Arabia, Persia, China, Japan, Korea, Siam, Burma, Central Asia, England, and Russia.. The learned author has approached with a new hope and attempt to represent many new materials for research work and also for knowledge of the inquisitive reader.. About the. Swami Prajnanananda owned great reputation in the fields of scholastic studies and research. He learnt classical music under noted Ustads and has extensively read and made research on musical treatises. He was awarded the Sisir Memorial Prize in 1960, the Fellowship by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi in 1963, and was awarded the Sarojini Gold Medal by the University of Calcutta. He was conferred D. Litt. by Robindra Bharati University, Calcutta. He is an author of many research books written in English, Sanskrit and Bengali.PrefaceThe Music of The Nations is a comparative studyof music and musical systems of the civilized nationsof the world. The book deals with music of India, Me-sopotemia, Greece, Rome, Arabia, Persia, China, Japan,Korea, Siam, Burma, Central Asia, England and Russia.There was a close contact by land and sea betweenIndia and other Western countries, Middle East, andCentral Asia, and India supplied various materials ofart, culture and civilization to those countries. Be-sides, music of India was not limited within the cornersof India, but it crossed the borders of India, and contri-buted her art and culture to other countries. TheBuddhist age was a golden one, and in this age, Indiahad a contact