"testifies to a well-established system of music in ancient India, with an elaborate theory of intervals, consonances, modes, melodic and rhythmic patterns". ... "Bharata's text was probably rehandled as early as antiquity, and it may confirm the idea that Bharata himself wrote his treatise much earlier" ... "slow transition from folk-song to art-song, from hundreds of tribal styles to one all-embracing music of India had long ago come to an end."

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