New Mansions for Music : Performance, Pedagogy and Criticism

PERFORMANCE PEDAGOGY AND CRITICISM. The three essays in New Mansions for Music: Performance, Pedagogy and Criticism look at one of the most ancient, rigorous classical musical traditions of India, the Karnatik music, and the kind of changes it underwent once it was brought out into the open from the exclusive environment where it was nurtured.

This was the demand of the age, the nineteenth century and the city, which became the scene of this development, was the capital of Tamil Nadu, Madras.