Synopsis This is the Concluding volume in the series of boks planned for the exposition of the Theory of South Indian Music in all its comprehensive aspects. South Indian Music in all its comprehensive aspects. South Indian music can stand on a par with western music in having an intelligent and well-developed system of musicology and which can bee studied at the highest levels. Some of the topics dealt with in this book appeared originally as articles contributed by the author to various journals. They have since been amplified and re-written in the light of subsequent researches and presented here.