Rāgs Around the Clock: A Handbook for North Indian Classical Music, with Online Recordings in the Khayāl Style - cover image

Copyright

David Clarke

Published On

2024-10-02

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80064-807-4
PDF978-1-80064-809-8
HTML978-1-80064-813-5
EPUB978-1-80064-810-4

Language

  • English

Print Length

262 pages (xxiv + 238)

Dimensions

Paperback210 x 14 x 297 mm(8.27" x 0.55" x 11.69")

Weight

Paperback642g (22.65oz)

Media

Illustrations50
Audio63

OCLC Number

1458589178

THEMA

  • AVLA
  • AVM
  • AVA
  • AVX
  • NHF

BIC

  • AV
  • AVA
  • AVGE
  • JHMC
  • 1FKA
  • AVX

BISAC

  • MUS006000
  • MUS020000
  • MUS015000
  • MUS032000

Keywords

  • Rāgs
  • North Indian classical music
  • Handbook
  • Songs (music and text)
  • world music
  • ethnomusicology

Rāgs Around the Clock

A Handbook for North Indian Classical Music, with Online Recordings in the Khayāl Style

Rāgs Around the Clock is a rich and vibrant compendium for the discovery and study of North Indian classical music. The theory and practice of rāg are explored through two interlinked resources: a handbook of essays and analyses offering technical, historical, cultural and aesthetic perspectives; and two online albums – Rāg samay cakra and Twilight Rāgs from North India – featuring khayāl singer Vijay Rajput and accompanists.

Extracts from the albums are also embedded into the text to enhance learning and understanding. Each rāg is accompanied by a description of its chief characteristics and technical features, a notation of the song (bandiś) on which the performance is based, and a transliteration and translation of the song text. Distinctively, Rāg samay cakra also includes spoken renditions of each of the texts, helping non-Hindavi speakers to achieve the correct pronunciation.

Sharing insights from both theory and practice, this collection draws on recent scholarship while also showcasing the vocal idiom – the gāyakī – of Vijay Rajput, a disciple of the late Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. It offers invaluable reading for students and researchers of Indian classical music, world music and ethnomusicology, and a rich repository for teacher and student practitioners of the khayāl vocal style. The combination of an aural and written exploration of rāg will appeal to anyone drawn to this form of music – whether newcomer, student (śiṣyā) or aficionado (rasika).

Additional Resources

Blog post: 'On bi-musicality: a passage to Indian music' by David Clarke, https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/on-bi-musicality-a-passage-to-indian-music/

Track List

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).

This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute the material in any medium or format and to adapt, remix and build upon the material providing attribution is made to the author (but not in any way that suggests that he endorses you or your use of the work).

Attribution should include the following information: David Clarke. Music by Vijay Rajput, Rāgs Around the Clock: A Handbook for North Indian Classical Music, with Online Recordings in the Khayāl Style. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0313

The tracks are also available on the book’s companion website at https://research.ncl.ac.uk/ragas/

Rāg Samay Cakra

Music

[audio]Track 1 – Rāg Bhairav (5:06)
[audio]Track 2 - Rāg Toḍī (5:47)
[audio]Track 3 - Rāg Śuddh Sāraṅg (5:12)
[audio]Track 4 - Rāg Brindābanī Sāraṅg (3:53)
[audio]Track 5 - Rāg Bhīmpalāsī (5:15)
[audio]Track 6 - Rāg Multānī (4:45)
[audio]Track 7 - Rāg Pūriyā Dhanāśrī (7:39)
[audio]Track 8 - Rāg Bhūpālī (7:03)
[audio]Track 9 - Rāg Yaman (7:22)
[audio]Track 10 - Rāg Kedār (3:48)
[audio]Track 11 - Rāg Bihāg (5:30)
[audio]Track 12 - Rāg Mālkauns (6:57)
[audio]Track 13 - Rāg Megh (4:32)
[audio]Track 14 - Rāg Basant (4:47)

Bandiś Texts, Spoken

[audio]Track 15 - ‘Dhana dhana murata’ (Rāg Bhairav) (0:33)
[audio]Track 16 - ‘Laṅgara kā̃karīyā’ (Rāg Todī) (0:23)
[audio]Track 17 - ‘Aba morī bāta’ (Rāg Śuddh Sāraṅg) (0:33)
[audio]Track 18 - ‘Raṅga le manavā’ (Rāg Brindābanī Sāraṅg) (0:41)
[audio]Track 19 - ‘Hamarī kahī mitavā’ (Rāg Bhīmpalāsī) (0:28)
[audio]Track 20 - ‘Runaka jhunaka’ (Rāg Multānī) (0:22)
[audio]Track 21 - ‘Pā̃yalīyā jhanakāra’ (Rāg Pūriyā Dhanāśrī) (0:22)
[audio]Track 22 - ‘Gāīye Gaṇapatī’ (Rāg Bhūpālī) (0:23)
[audio]Track 23 - ‘Śyām bajāi’ (Rāg Yaman) (0:27)
[audio]Track 24 - ‘Bola bola mose’ (Rāg Kedār) (0:27)
[audio]Track 25 - ‘Abahũ lālana’ (Rāg Bihāg) (0:32)
[audio]Track 26 - ‘Koyalīyā bole ambuvā’ (Rāg Mālkauns) (0:28)
[audio]Track 27 - ‘Ghanana ghanana’ (Rāg Megh) (0:24)
[audio]Track 28 - ‘Phulavā binata’ (Rāg Basant) (0:30)

Twilight Rāgs from North India

Rāg Bhairav

[audio]Track 1 - Ālāp (2:55)
[audio]Track 2 - Baṛā khayāl in vilambit ektāl: ‘Bālamavā more saīyā̃’ (18:22)
[audio]Track 3 - Choṭā khayāl in drut ektāl: ‘Suno to sakhī batiyā’ (11:58)

Rāg Yaman

[audio]Track 4 - Ālāp (3:14)
[audio]Track 5 - Baṛā khayāl in vilambit ektāl: ‘Kahe sakhī kaise ke karīe’ (19:39)
[audio]Track 6 - Choṭā khayāl in drut tīntāl: ‘Śyām bajāi’ (10:30)

Contributors

David Clarke

(author)
Professor of Music at Newcastle University
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1365-4188
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/people/profile/diclarke.html

David Clarke is Professor of Music at Newcastle University. His wide-ranging musical and academic interests include music theory and analysis, music and philosophy, and Hindustani classical music. His musicological publications include articles, books and book chapters on twentieth-century western music, music and consciousness, and Hindustani classical music. He has studied the khayāl vocal style with Dr Vijay Rajput since 2004, and has undertaken study and participated in workshops with Pandits Rajan and Sajan Misra, Ramakant and Umakant Gundecha, Smt Veena Sahasrabuddhe, and Pandit Uday Bhawalkar.

Vijay Rajput

(music editor)
Visiting Tutor in Vocal Music at Newcastle University
http://pt-vijayrajput.com/

Dr Vijay Rajput was born in New Delhi, and started learning Music at the age of eight. He acquired his initial training in the khayāl vocal style from Pandits M.G. Deshpande, Vinay Chander Mudgal and Madhup Mudgal. Subsequently, he studied for several years under Bhārat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, one of India’s most eminent vocalists. Vijay gained his PhD from the University of Delhi in 2003 with a thesis on the life and works of Sawai Gandharva. He is in demand as a performer in India, the UK and on the wider international stage. He has sung at many festivals, including the Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Mahotsav in Pune. He has been based in Newcastle upon Tyne since 2004, and since 2006 has taught students from many musical backgrounds at Newcastle University.