After some years of research, I have come out with a Book on 22 srutis music, namely, "The Mystic Citadel of 22 Sruti Music". This gives a very new dimension to the concept of music at large. I have established that an advanced ancient civilization (now extinct) had passed on their asset of 22 sruti music after encoding and compressing it. The keys are handed over as a part of our cultural heritage. However, these had remained un-decoded for the past several millennia as the scientific and technological environment had remained underdeveloped then. My research work is a humble contribution towards unlocking these codes using the abundant musicological and scientific tools as available in our current century. While undertaking this work I had taken the Indian route and relied heavily on the Indian musicological literature. However, during the later period of my research work, I came to realize that the "elements of music" as unravelled by me now, truly belong to the world music community as it transcends all geographical barriers. Therefore, I had tried to re-orient the presentation in my Book to the extent feasible such that musicologists belonging to other cultural groups could also participate. The "internal structure" designed as 'codes' within this family of 22 srutis has the potential to bring out a new genre of melody, if the game-rules are correctly adhered to. This could be a quantum jump above the kind of melody we are used to in our contemporary classical music! May I request the interested members to interact with me more, by visiting my web-site: www.22sruti.com. We can discover more with our combined might.
