Author : L. Annapoorna
Publisher :
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Carnatic music
ISBN : 9788173911408
The First Study Specifically Designed For The Study Of Veena And Its Tradition Vis-A-Vis Styles Of Vainikas. The Book Is Divided Into Eight Chapters.
Author : Bhavana Pradyumna
Publisher : Carnatic Conservatory of Paris
Page : pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2020-11-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
"Approach to Music : the Indian way" is a book published by Carnatic Conservatory of Paris - “Is this book any different from other introductory books about Carnatic Music?" It’s the approach outlined in this book that makes it different. This book provides valuable information about some of the very important aspects of Carnatic music which can be used as a basic guide to Carnatic music learners. The book also gives the reader an insight into Indian musician’s perception of Western music while providing an Indian view of Music to the western audience. This book is attractive and easy to follow for learners who will find both exercises for rhythm (konnakkol) & melody (swaras) with high quality notations. This book also covers the beauty and details about Veena, one of the oldest traditional instruments. The reference to human body parts, Yoga chakras & Veena, is a good example to show that music and holistic living were a part of ancient India Other publications of CCParis include ‘Children’s Carnatic’ a book series that uses simple story telling with beautiful illustrations, to open a curious window to Indian Music and Dance forms, which are one of the most ancient in the world. This is curated in a fun way to engage you and your child with every read. This series comes in handy for teachers to engage young minds as well.
Author : Hindraj Divekar
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,93 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 9788171415816
Contents: An Overview of Music and Musical Traditions in India, Research Methodology, Types of Indian Classical Musical Instruments, Place of Rudra Veena in Indian Classical Music, The Manufacturers of Rudra Veena A Case Study, Efforts to Preserve and Popularize Rudra Veena, Summary and Conclusion.
Author : Lewis Rowell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0226730344
Offering 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.
Author : Dr. Swarn Lata
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 1475947070
Since the thirteenth century, the sitara stringed, plucked instrument of Indiahas transformed into an instrument beloved by millions in its country of origin as well as all over the world. The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music details the origin, history, and playing styles of this unique stringed instrument. Dr. Swarn Lata relies on more than thirty-five years of experience teaching sitar to students from diverse cultures and communities as well as extensive research from libraries, museums, temples, and musicologists to compile a comprehensive guidebook filled with fascinating facts about the sitar. In a carefully organized format, Lata offers an in-depth examination of the meaning of musical instruments, the styles of different gharanas, and the place of the sitar in Indian classical music. Music is an extraordinary medium of expression that has the capability to bring the world together. This step-by-step guidebook shares a one-of-akind study of a unique instrument that produces a beautiful sound while providing an unforgettable spiritual experience to all who listen.
Author : Deepak S. Raja
Publisher : DK Printworld (P) Ltd
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 8124611262
About the Author Deepak Raja (b. 1948-) is amongst the most respected writers on Hindustani music today. He works as repertoire analyst for India Archive Music Ltd. (IAM), New York, the most influential producer of Hindustani music outside India. He has been associated with the academic and publishing activities of the Śruti magazine (Chennai), ITC-Sangeet Research Academy (Calcutta), Sangeet Natak Akademi (Delhi), and the Indian Musicological Society (Baroda/Mumbai). About tha Book Stating that Hindustani music should be rightly termed “Art music” and not “classical music”, the book begins by discussing the features of Art music and presents an approach to appreciating Hindustani music. It provides a detailed understanding of the components of the raga experience in Hindustani music, including their time theory and the role of Gharanas of the musical tradition. It deals with genres of raga-based vocal music which have been performed over the last five centuries: dhrupad, which has its moorings in devotional music; khyal vocalism shaped by Sufi influences; the thumri, which originated as an accompaniment to the Kathak dance; and the tappa, adapted from the songs of camel drivers in the north-west frontier. It takes up the use of instruments in Hindustani music, especially the rudra-vina, sitar, surbahar, sarod, santur, the shehnai, pakhawaj, the Hawaiian Guitar and many others, giving an account of their origin, performing styles and lineages relating to them. Throughout, the emphasis is on contemporary trends in Hindustani music and its prospects in the future. It mentions the significant practitioners of Hindustani music, both vocal and instrumental. The volume will interest lovers of Indian music and also scholars who want to have a greater understanding of its traditions, its contemporary appeal and trends in practice.
Author : George Ruckert
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN :
This Is A Book Of And About The Classical Music Of North India, Among The Oldest Continual Musical Traditions Of The World. This Volume Introduces The Great Richness And Variety Of The Different Styles Of Music As Taught By One Of The Century`S Greatest Musicians, Ali Akbar Khan.
Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 168137479X
Winner 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.
Author : Sally B. Brown
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1588396363
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} Published to celebrate the reopening of The Met's André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments after a two-year renovation, this Bulletin tells the story of Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown, whose unparalleled collection formed the department’s foundation. Sally B. Brown, Mary Elizabeth’s great-granddaughter, explores how a mother of six without any musical training acquired over 3,600 musical instruments from around the world in the late nineteenth century. Mary Elizabeth also became an esteemed authority in the field, authoring the first catalogue of a musical instruments collection in the United States. This publication features works of art from her collection, roughly two-thirds of which are from non-European cultures, that attest to her groundbreaking deviation from the Western canon and exceptional ambition as a collector.
Author : Oliver Craske
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0306874873
One 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.
