About the Book
The book explores the profound relationship between Indian music compositions and human values, drawing from various genres of music and compositions across multiple languages. Human values are examined through essential frameworks alongside Indian scriptural traditions, and are analyzed across important musical dimensions. The work reveals how great composers have beautifully encoded values such as fearlessness, humility, grace, tolerance, and even creativity and collaboration into their compositions, right from Basavanna’s direct moral messaging to Dikshitar’s impersonal musical embodiment.
Beyond this analysis, the book also offers practical perspectives on making these value-rich compositions relevant to contemporary audiences and includes new and rare compositions on the themes of nature and humanity.