Musical Heritage of India
Author: Manorma Sharma
Publisher: APH Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9788131300466
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Music and Musical Thought in Early India
Author: Lewis Rowell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-12-25
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 0226730344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs the tunings, scales, modes, rhythms, gestures, formal patterns, and genres of Indian music from Vedic times to the thirteenth century, presenting not so much a history as a thematic analysis and interpretation of India's magnificent musical heritage. In Indian culture, music forms an integral part of a broad framework of ideas that includes philosophy, cosmology, religion, literature, and science. Rowell works with the known theoretical treatises and the oral tradition in an effort to place the technical details of musical practice in their full cultural context. Many quotations from the original Sanskrit appear here in English translation for the first time, and the necessary technical information is presented in terms accessible to the nonspecialist. These features, combined with Rowell's glossary of Sanskrit terms and extensive bibliography, make Music and Musical Thought in Early India an excellent introduction for the general reader and an indispensable reference for ethnomusicologists, historical musicologists, music theorists, and Indologists.
The Musical Heritage of India
Author: Madura Ramaswami Gautam
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrations: 8 colour and 43 b/w illustrations Description: This book attempts as an authentic presentation of Indian music in various aspects. It doesn't only gives the musicological background but also the predominantly musical content involved in the forms, aesthetics, gharanas and their styles. This book is an epitome of the origin and evolution of Indian music from Vedic to modern film music with special reference to Hindustani music. It has separate chapters dealing with Karnatak music, a comparative study of the essential features of Hindustani and Karnatak music, the dhruvapada, the Khayal, the thumari, and the tappa; Western music and its influence on Indian film music. It also has a separate chapter on Bharat Ratna Srimati M.S. Subbulakshmi, the legend of Karnatak music.
The Music of India
Author: Reginald Massey
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 8170173329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Classical Music Of The India-Pakistan-Bangladesh Subcontinent Is One Of The New Ancient Art Forms Still Widely Practised Today. In Recent Years It Has Been Much Appreciated All Over The World. This Book, Written By Indian Writers, Serves To Deepen That Appreciation To Understanding. It Covers The Philosophy And History Of Indian Music Clearly And Concisely And Relates Its Growth And Development To Social, Cultural, Religious And Political Factors. India S Musical Contacts With The East And West Are Also Discussed And Their Value Assessed. The Technical Chapters Explain The Raga And Tala Systems, The Numerous Instruments From North And South Are Described In Detail With The Help Of Excellent Line Drawings By Eilean Pearcey, And The Glossary Of Terms Illumines The Subject In An Interesting Way. Short Biographies Of Established Musicians, Composers And Musicologists Place On Record Their Various Achievements. Apart From A Selective Bibliography And Discography For The Reader S Guidance There Is Also A List Of Useful Addresses. The Music Of India Will Prove Invaluable To The Student And Specialist Who Requires A Ready Handbook On The Subject. For The General Reader It Contains A Mine Of Information On The Musical Life Of An Entire Subcontinent. Ravi Shankar, In His Foreword, Recommends This Book To All Who Wish To Be Introduced To India S Music, Her Culture And Her Peoples. This Is A Work Of Scholarship; Lively, At Times Even Witty And Never Dull
Musical Heritage of India
Author: Lalita Ramakrishna
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNataraj is not only the lord of dance and rhythm but symbolizes classical music as well.His body is made of melody (Nada Tanu) and he shares this propensity with Saraswati,his sister. India s heritage of music is yet to be discovered and fully appreciated. Plantedin the rich soil of mythology, philosophy and folk idiom, classical music has sproutedfoliage and flowers of exquisite beauty.This book is a pleasing work that will satisfy the general reader as well as the seriousstudent. A knowledge of raga, tala and musical form is necessary to fully enjoy aconcert. In addition, we need to know the basic differences between the two sistersystems-the Hindustani and the Karnatak. Both these highly complex art forms originatefrom the same ancient tradition. The major vidwans from the 14 c A.D. till today arechronicled. The highly scientific Mela (scale) system that encompasses the ragas, themathematical accuracy of talal rhythms, the importance of words and lyric in the Kritiand Pallavi forms, the various important musical instruments - are all given in succinctform.
Music in North India
Author: George Ruckert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusic in North India provides a representative overview of this music, discussing rhythm and drumming traditions, song composition and performance styles, and melodic and rhythmic instruments. Drawing on his experience as a sarod player, vocalist, and music teacher, author George Ruckert incorporates numerous musical exercises to demonstrate important concepts. The book ranges from the chants of the ancient Vedas to modern devotional singing and from the serious and meditative rendering of raga to the concert-hall excitement of the modern sitar, sarod, and tabla. It is framed around three major topics: the devotional component of North Indian music, the idea of fixity and spontaneity in the various styles of Indian music, and the importance of the verbal syllable to the expression of the musical aesthetic in North India.
Finding the Raga
Author: Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 168137479X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography An autobiographical exploration of the role and meaning of music in our world by one of India's greatest living authors, himself a vocalist and performer. Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, and essayist, is also a musician, trained in the Indian classical vocal tradition but equally fluent as a guitarist and singer in the American folk music style, who has recorded his experimental compositions extensively and performed around the world. A turning point in his life took place when, as a lonely teenager living in a high-rise in Bombay, far from his family’s native Calcutta, he began, contrary to all his prior inclinations, to study Indian classical music. Finding the Raga chronicles that transformation and how it has continued to affect and transform not only how Chaudhuri listens to and makes music but how he listens to and thinks about the world at large. Offering a highly personal introduction to Indian music, the book is also a meditation on the differences between Indian and Western music and art-making as well as the ways they converge in a modernism that Chaudhuri reframes not as a twentieth-century Western art movement but as a fundamental mode of aesthetic response, at once immemorial and extraterritorial. Finding the Raga combines memoir, practical and cultural criticism, and philosophical reflection with the same individuality and flair that Chaudhuri demonstrates throughout a uniquely wide-ranging, challenging, and enthralling body of work.
India's Heritage of Gharana Music
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Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9788182904231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Music Revival
Author: Caroline Bithell
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 721
ISBN-13: 0199765030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy is music from the past significant today and how has it been transformed to suit new values and agendas? This volume examines the globally recurrent cultural processes of revival, resurgence, restoration, and renewal. Interdisciplinary perspectives shed new light on authenticity, recontextualization, transmission, institutionalization, globalization, and post-revival legacies.
Indian Sun
Author: Oliver Craske
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 682
ISBN-13: 0306874873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of Library Journal's "Best Arts Books of 2020" The definitive biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the most influential musicians and composers of the twentieth century, told with the cooperation of his estate, family, and friends For over eight decades, Ravi Shankar was India's greatest cultural ambassador. He was a groundbreaking performer and composer of Indian classical music, who brought the music and rich culture of India to the world's leading concert halls and festivals, charting the map for those who followed in his footsteps. Renowned for playing Monterey Pop, Woodstock, and the Concert for Bangladesh-and for teaching George Harrison of The Beatles how to play the sitar-Shankar reshaped the musical landscape of the 1960s across pop, jazz, and classical music, and composed unforgettable scores for movies like Pather Panchali and Gandhi. In Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar, writer Oliver Craske presents readers with the first full portrait of this legendary figure, revealing the personal and professional story of a musician who influenced-and continues to influence-countless artists. Craske paints a vivid picture of a captivating, restless workaholic-from his lonely and traumatic childhood in Varanasi to his youthful stardom in his brother's dance troupe, from his intensive study of the sitar to his revival of India's national music scene. Shankar's musical influence spread across both genres and generations, and he developed close friendships with John Coltrane, Philip Glass, Yehudi Menuhin, George Harrison, and Benjamin Britten, among many others. For ninety-two years, Shankar lived an endlessly colorful and creative life, a life defined by musical, emotional, and spiritual quests-and his legacy lives on. Benefiting from unprecedented access to Shankar's archives, and drawing on new interviews with over 130 subjects-including his second wife and both of his daughters, Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar- Indian Sun gives readers unparalleled insight into a man who transformed modern music as we know it today.
