Language, Music & Games
Venkatamakhin's 72 melakarta scheme
c. 1660 CEVenkatamakhinChaturdandi PrakasikaPan-Indian / unspecified
1660
A combinatorial classification of all possible seven-note parent scales into 72 melakartas.
- Dated
- 1660
- As scholars put it
- c. 1660 CE
- Originator
- Venkatamakhin
- Source text
- Chaturdandi Prakasika
- Region
- Pan-Indian / unspecified
- Discipline
- Language, Music & Games
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Fair to say
Later systematised by Govindacharya.
Path to modern innovation
Still the backbone of Carnatic music theory.
Builds on
1 CE
1200References
- 1Music-theory scholarship
Further reading
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