About the Book: Winged From: Aesthetical Essays On Hindustani Rhythm
This collection of essays, a thoroughly revised and enlarged version of its
first earlier edition (1979), is a pioneering treatment of the Hindustani rhythm
in the way of contemporary (Western) aesthetics. It seeks, on the one hand, to
determine and distinguish the meaning of such key words as laya, matra, bol,
theka, sama, and layakari, and, on the other hand, to seize the details and
aesthetic semblances of live rhythm as they appear to contemplation. Some wider
aesthetical questions have also been addressed in this book. How, if at all, can
rhythm be regarded as an autonomous