Prem Lata Sharma was a musicologist

Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...

, scholar and educator. She was born in Punjab and completed her doctorate

Doctorate

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 in the Banaras Hindu University

Banaras Hindu University

Banaras Hindu University is a public university located in Varanasi, India and is one of the Central Universities of India. It is the largest residential university in Asia, with over 24,000 students in its campus. BHU was founded in 1916 by Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya under the Parliamentary...

.

Her teachers included Prof. P.L. Vaidya, Pt. Omkarnath Thakur

Omkarnath Thakur

Omkarnath Thakur was an Indian educator, musicologist, and Hindustani classical singer. He is famously known as "Pranav Rang", his pen-name.Thakur was born 1897 in a village in the Princely State of Baroda into a poor military family...

, Pt. Mahadev Shastri, M.M.Pt. Gopinath Kaviraj

Gopinath Kaviraj

Gopinath Kaviraj was a Sanskrit scholar and philosopher. Kaviraj was the posthumous son of Vaikunthanath, a Bengali scholar of philosophy. He was born in Village Dhamrai, in the district of Dacca, now the capital of Bangladesh...

, Prof. V.S. Agrawal and Pt. Hajari Prasad Dwivedi, Pt. Brahmadatta Jijnasu, Pt.T.V. Ramachandra Dixitar. She was a polyglot

Polyglot

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 who knew eight language

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s. She headed the [Department of Musicology at the Banaras Hindu University.

The various seminar

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s she organized and the translation

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 projects she undertook represent seminal and unique contributions to India

India

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n musicology.

Publications

• Critical edition of Rasavilasa
• Sangita Raja of Kumbhakarna
• Brihaddeshi of Matanga
• Chitrakavyakoutukam
• Sahasarasa
• Ekalingamahatmya
• Bhaktirasamritasindhu

External links

• http://journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid=3963852