| Series |
SOAS musicology series
SOAS musicology series. ^A581180
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| Contents |
What is Dhrupad?. A view from the audience ; A view from the platform ; A problem of definition ; The structure of performance ; Melody. Rag ; Melodic style ; Intonation -- Rhythm and metre. Alap ; Tal and time-keeping ; Melodic rhythm ; Laykari -- Text ; The Dhrupad repertory. Cautal Dhrupad ; Dhamar ; Sadra ; Fast Dhrupads ; Other items ; The Talwandi Gharana repertory -- Instruments. Accompaniment and ensemble ; Pakhavaj ; Rudra Vina ; Other instruments -- Singers. The Seniya tradition ; Regional Dhrupad traditions -- Dhrupad ideology -- The historical emergence of Dhrupad style. Dhrupad at the Mughal court. Origins ; Composition ; Performance ; Style and transmission -- The rise of Khyal and decline of Dhrupad ; The nineteenth century: Willard and Imam -- Tradition and style: the four banis. The origins of bani ; The four banis. Sources ; Bani as a synaesthetic concept ; Bani and Giti ; The Gaudahar Bani ; The Dagar Bani ; The Khandar Bani ; The Nauhar Bani -- The fate of the Banis -- The transmission of tradition: the Dagar heritage. Sources of tradition ; Bahram Khan. Bahram Khan at Jaipur ; Bahram Khan the musician ; Bahram Khan the teacher ; Bahram Kahn's origins -- Bahram Khan's successors ; The Dagar heritage in the twentieth century ; Transmitting the Dagar Bani. Aesthetic concepts ; The musical repertory ; The teacher-pupil relationship ; Talim ; Institutional transmission -- Alap and tradition. Function, form and process ; Traditional aspects of alap performance. Alapti ; The stages of alap ; The nom tom syllables ; The Mukhra ; Laksanas -- Aesthetic and philosophical concepts -- An alap performance in the Dagar tradition. Analysing Alap performance. Objectives ; Representing melody and rhythm -- Rag Multani ; Slow Alap. The opening ; Slow alap: Sthayi ; Slow alap: Antara -- Medium alap ; Fast alap. Rhythm in fast alap -- Tradition in performance -- Composition and tradition. Dhrupad compositions as cultural objects ; Origins and transmission ; Identity ; Form ; The formal archetype ; Origins of the archetype ; Composition and tradition -- Performing the composition: rhythmic variation and improvisation. 'Fixed' and 'free' laykari ; Historical context. Augmentation and diminution ; Historical evidence for improvisation -- Laykari in the Talwandi style. Suddh gait ; Ar gait ; Kuar gait ; Viar gait -- Laykari in the Darbhanga style ; Laykari in the Dagar style. General characteristics of style: Ritwik Sanyal ; The articulation of metrical space ; Tihai ; Improvising Laykari -- Dhrupad in the modern world: tradition, performance and revival. The Dhrupad revival. The Dagar family and the beginnings of revival ; 'Festivalization' ; Transmission ; Dhrupad overseas ; Media -- Festivals of Dhrupad. Banaras and Vrindaban: inception and organization ; Two symbols ; Three individuals ; Dhrupad and wrestling: tradition and modernity ; Continuity and change ; Other festivals -- Revival and change -- Appendix 1. Principal Dhrupad Tals -- Appendix 2. Dhrupad lineages -- Appendix 3. Alap and Dhrupad, rag multani (transcription). |
| Abstract |
Dhrupad is believed to be the oldest style of classical vocal music performed today in North India. This detailed study of the genre is built around issues of tradition and performance. There is an overview of the historical development of the dhrupad tradition and performance styles from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth, followed by analyses of performance techniques, processes and characteristics. The authors examine the relationship between the structures provided by tradition and their realization by the performer to provide a reconsideration of the nature of 'tradition' in dhrupad. Augmented with a transcription of a complete dhrupad performance, this is the first book-length study of an Indian vocal genre to be co-authored by an Indian practitioner and a Western musicologist. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-374) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2003049623 |
| ISBN | 0754603792 (alk. paper) |
