Sambamoorthy P. History of Indian Music

Madras: The Indian Music Publishing House, 1960. — 267 p.Sambamurthy P. History of Indian music (In English)Sources for the Musical History of India.
Landmarks in the History of Music and Dance.
Evolution of Scales.
Musical Mnemonics.
Evolution of Musical forms.
Forms in Sacred Music: Their Evolution.
Evolution of the Opera and Dance drama.
Famous Musical Contests.
Circumstances that occasioned famous pallavis and compositions.
Interesting incidents in the lives of famous musicians.
Seats of Music.
Evolution of Bhashanga ragas.
Musical concepts, their origin and development.
Indian Musicography, its origin and development.
Music depicted in stones and Music given by stones.
Vina through the ages.
Traditions in Music.
Music of the post-Tyagaraja Period.
Miscellaneous.
Musical Anecdotes.