This book explores important features of Indian classical modes: the structure of melody, the effect of the drone, ornamentation and intonation, the function of accidentals and the perception of symmetries. These are related to a well-documented survey of the evolutionary processes that hae shaped the rags of today. In this new edition, an "Introduction to Technical Terms" has been added for the benefit of those not so familiar with a theorietical approach to North Indian music. A CD by Ustad Vilayat Khan illustrating the book is also available from the publishers.
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Professor Jairazbhoy has combined his native insights into North Indian music with his training in Western scholarship to produce a very lucid and informative account of his title's subject. His experience in teaching students of Indian music who are often ignorant of the basics when they begin has helped him write in such a way that the book may be used profitably by both the novice and the initiate.... - Charles Capwell. --Asian Music 4:2(1973)
As a thoughtful, honest and sensitive view of one man about his music, it carries an undeniable authority. - Judith Becker --Journal of ASian Studies
This book is a classic and I cannot recommend it too highly. - Reginald Massey --Making Music, autumn 1971
As a thoughtful, honest and sensitive view of one man about his music, it carries an undeniable authority. - Judith Becker --Journal of ASian Studies
This book is a classic and I cannot recommend it too highly. - Reginald Massey --Making Music, autumn 1971
As a thoughtful, honest and sensitive view of one man about his music, it carries an undeniable authority. - Judith Becker --Journal of ASian Studies
This book is a classic and I cannot recommend it too highly. - Reginald Massey --Making Music, autumn 1971
As a thoughtful, honest and sensitive view of one man about his music, it carries an undeniable authority. - Judith Becker --Journal of ASian Studies
This book is a classic and I cannot recommend it too highly. - Reginald Massey --Making Music, autumn 1971
About the Author
Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy (1927-) began sitar studies as a child in Bombay with Madhav Lal of Mathura. After graduation from the Doon School and the University of Washington, he was a student and faculty colleague of the late Dr. Arnold Adriaan Bake at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, receiving his doctorate in 1971. Internationally recognized as a foremost scholar of Indian music, he has received recognition for Distinguished Service by the University of California. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Ethnomusicology at UCLA, where he has taught since 1975.
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The tradition of scholarship in North Indian classical music has continued unabated since this book was first published in 1971; nevertheless, there has been very little advance in the development of music theory in the past two decades. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heptatonic series, conjunct balance, transilient scales, secondary drone, tetrachordal symmetry, conjunct tetrachords, disjunct tetrachords, tetrachord species, ascending conjunct, pentatonic series, unbalanced notes, descending conjunct, tetrachord types, chromatic counterpart, movable notes, certain rags, conjunct parallel, particular rag, upper tetrachord, lower tetrachord, temporary omission, symmetrical segments, order accidentals, modal series, accompanying record Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Indian, Vilayat Khan, South Indian, Circle of Thais, Tilak Kamod, Fox Strangways, Tilak Kdmod, Circle of Thats, Comparative Study, Locana's Gauri, Ahir Bhairav, Gujri Tori, Music of India, Ravi Shankar, Ahir Lalit, Anand Bhairav, Music of Hindostan, Short Historical Survey, Vasant Mukhari, Basic Elements of Theory, Nat Bhairav, Abdul Halim, Muhammad Shah, Northern Indian Music New!
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The tradition of scholarship in North Indian classical music has continued unabated since this book was first published in 1971; nevertheless, there has been very little advance in the development of music theory in the past two decades. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heptatonic series, conjunct balance, transilient scales, secondary drone, tetrachordal symmetry, conjunct tetrachords, disjunct tetrachords, tetrachord species, ascending conjunct, pentatonic series, unbalanced notes, descending conjunct, tetrachord types, chromatic counterpart, movable notes, certain rags, conjunct parallel, particular rag, upper tetrachord, lower tetrachord, temporary omission, symmetrical segments, order accidentals, modal series, accompanying record Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Indian, Vilayat Khan, South Indian, Circle of Thais, Tilak Kamod, Fox Strangways, Tilak Kdmod, Circle of Thats, Comparative Study, Locana's Gauri, Ahir Bhairav, Gujri Tori, Music of India, Ravi Shankar, Ahir Lalit, Anand Bhairav, Music of Hindostan, Short Historical Survey, Vasant Mukhari, Basic Elements of Theory, Nat Bhairav, Abdul Halim, Muhammad Shah, Northern Indian Music New!
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- The Music of Hindostan by A. H. Fox Strangways on 5 pages
- Music of India by William Jones on 4 pages
- The Oxford History of India by V. A. Smith in Front Matter, page 19, and Back Matter
- The Music of India by Herbert A. Popley on page 24, page 62, and Back Matter
- History Of India by Romesh Chunder Dutt in Front Matter, page 19, and Back Matter
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- Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the India Diaspora (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Helen Myers in Back Matter
- Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Bonnie C. Wade in Back Matter
- Music and Musical Thought in Early India (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Lewis Rowell in Back Matter
- Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the India Diaspora (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Helen Myers in Back Matter
- Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Bonnie C. Wade in Back Matter
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