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

Copyright

David Clarke

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80064-807-4
PDF978-1-80064-809-8
HTML978-1-80064-813-5
XML978-1-80064-812-8
EPUB978-1-80064-810-4

Language

  • English

Dimensions

Paperback210 x 297 mm (8.27" x 11.69")

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

    FORTHCOMING
    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).

    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.