Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Language and (Carnatic) music -- Chapter 3. Issues in modeling the grammar: Language -- and Carnatic music -- Chapter 4. Conversion of pitch values to -- notes -- Chapter 5. Representation of the musical -- line -- Chapter 6. Construing meaning in Carnatic music: -- Determining grammaticality -- Chapter 7. Construing meaning in Carnatic music: -- Style/stylistic issues -- Chapter 8. The lexicon of Carnatic music -- Chapter 9. Accounting for variation in Carnatic -- music -- Backmatter