List of Carnatic music treatises

Carnatic music
Concepts
Śruti Svara Rāga Tāḷa Mēḷakarta Asaṃpūrṇa Mēḷakarta
Compositions
Gītaṃ Svarajati Varṇaṃ Kriti Rāgaṃ Tānaṃ Pallavi Tillana
Instruments
Melody Vocals Sarasvati Vīṇa Veṇu Violin Gottuvadhyam (Citra Vīṇa) Nāda Svaraṃ Mandolin Jal tarang Rhythm Mr̥daṅgaṃ Ghatam Morsing Kanjira Thavil Drone Tanpura Shruti box
Composers Glossary

These are books on Carnatic music considered authoritative and necessary for a serious study of Carnatic music and its evolution. Most of them are in Sanskrit, and some even date from before the Christian era. A list of them are available below.

Sangeetha Ratnakara - Sarangadeva
Sangeetha Sampradaya Pradarshini - Subbarama Dikshitar
Sangeetha Chandrikai - Manikka Mudaliar
Swaramela Kalanidhi - Ramamatya
Natya Shastra - Bharata Muni
Chaturdandi Prakasika - Venkatamakhin
Sangeetha Makaranda - Narada
Raga Vibodha - Somanatha
Raga Lakshana - Shahji
Sangeetha Sudha - Govinda Dikshitar
Sangeetha Swaraprastara Sagaramu - Nadamuni Pandithar
Sangraha Choodamani - Govindacharya
Sangeetha Sudhakara - Haripala Deva
Sangeethasara - Vidyaranya
Sri Tatwanidhi - Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (with iconography)
Swara Chudamani - Krishnaraja Wodeyar III
Sara Sangraha Bharata - Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (dance)
Sangeeta Kalpadrumam - Muthiah Bhagavatar
Geeta Gopala - Chikka Devaraja Wodeyar

Music theory lists

Carnatic treatises Chords Progressions Compositions Atonal featuring Andalusian cadences Homotonal Major/minor Just Polytonal Quarter tone Twelve-tone and serial Whole tone scale Jazz contrafacts Makams Intervals 5-limit just Meantone Theorists Pitch class sets Scales and modes Tone rows and series

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