Elementary North Indian Vocal
Elementary North Indian Vocal

Author: Chandrakantha Nada Courtney

Publisher: Sur Sangeet Services

Published: 2021-04-11

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781893644144

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This book continues where "Elementary North Indian Vocal: Vol1" left off. This book goes into some detail as to the melodic accompaniment of North Indian Vocal, with a discussion of harmonium, tanpura, surmandal, sarangi, esraj, dilruba, taus, and tar shehnai. There are beginner's compositions in a variety of new rags that were not discussed in the first volume. There is a discussion of the process known as murcchana. There are also links to online supplemental audio material.

Learning the Tabla
Learning the Tabla

Author: David Courtney

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 1610657152

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The tabla, a hand drum which originated in India, has become very popular throughout the world. This method covers everything you need to know to learn to play the tabla, including the history and parts of the tabla, tuning and maintenance, positioning, basic exercises, and numerous techniques and patterns. A glossary is included to help the student decipher the many mnemonics and foreign terms which are essential to the tradition of the tabla. the accompanying CD illustrates many of the exercises, so that this book may be used either with or without a teacher.

Bollywood Sounds
Bollywood Sounds

Author: Jayson Beaster-Jones

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-10-09

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0199993483

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Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, commercial, and cinematic contexts. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones takes readers through the highly collaborative compositional process, highlighting the contributions of film directors, music directors (composers), lyricists, musicians, and singers in song production. Through close musical and multimedia analysis of more than twenty landmark compositions, Bollywood Sounds illustrates how the producers of Indian film songs have long mediated a variety of musical styles, instruments, and performance practices to create a uniquely cosmopolitan music genre. As an exploration of the music of seventy years of Hindi films, Bollywood Sounds provides long-term historical insights into film songs and their musical and cinematic conventions in ways that will appeal both to scholars and to newcomers to Indian cinema.

The Music of South Asia
The Music of South Asia

Author: David R. Courtney

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-12

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781893644106

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This is an edited version of Elementary North Indian Vocal. Hindustani Sangeet is the name of the classical system of music which covers the majority of South Asia. It covers a region which includes North India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and well into Afghanistan. This book is for teachers in public schools who wish to introduce this music into the curriculum, but run across obstacles. Sometimes the religious nature of the musical texts conflict with the mandate for a secular curriculum. Sometimes long standing geopolitical frictions are stirred up. This book is tailored to help you introduce the subject, but avoid these pitfalls.

Indian Music for the Classroom
Indian Music for the Classroom

Author: Natalie Rose Sarrazin

Publisher: R & L Education

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Sometimes saying goodbye is not the end, but the beginning of a new chapter. When you meet the one who bears the other half of your soul, death is but a mere obstacle.When twenty-eight year old Genevieve DuSoir meets Kalem, her terminal patient, she couldn't predict that she would fall for him. It was against every rule she had ever been taught to fall in love with a patient, much less a patient that was dying. However, love holds no bounds when two people are predestined to meet. In the blink of an eye, the lines between life and death begin to blur. Unaware of her new gift of light that she mysteriously inherits, people begin to miraculously heal around her. However, bearing the gift of light does not go unnoticed. A dark order of soul-eaters called Seekers, whose mission is to consume souls to achieve world domination, has been after Genevieve since the day she was born. Follow Genevieve on her journey to fulfill an ancient prophecy of lightness, while entangled in a sudden and intense romance with the one man she was forbidden to fall in love with.

Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education
Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education

Author: William M. Anderson

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2011-01-16

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1607095475

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With Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, you can explore musics from around the world with your students in a meaningful way. Broadly based and practically oriented, the book will help you develop curriculum for an increasingly multicultural society. Ready-to-use lesson plans make it easy to bring many different but equally logical musical systems into your classroom. The authors-a variety of music educators and ethnomusicologists-provide plans and resources to broaden your students' perspectives on music as an important aspect of culture both within the United States and globally.

Sruti Ranjani
Sruti Ranjani

Author: Viji Swaminathan

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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Sruti Ranjani is a collection of essays contributed by concert artists, scholars, historians, critics, dancers, choreographers and connoisseurs in the field of classical music and dance of India. They include writings on the evolution of Indian music and dance, Carnatic and Hindusthani music sysyems, biographies, perspectives and personal reflections.

Learning the Sitar
Learning the Sitar

Author: David Courtney

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 1610652568

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The sitar has been popular since the 1960s. Since that time it has always had a considerable mystique among musicians. It also has an undeserved reputation for being difficult to play. This book/CD set cuts though the mystique and misapprehensions and presents the material in a simple fashion that is easily understood both by Indians and non-Indian musicians alike.Learning the Sitar begins with basic background information, including a discussion of Indian music, the history of the instrument, the parts and other important terms It then moves on to basic exercises and finally finishes with some simple compositions in Bilawal, Kalyan and Kafi. This is covered in a mix of staff notation as well as traditional Indian Sargam notation.