Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music
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Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music

  1. 396 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music

About this book

Dhrupad is believed to be the oldest style of classical vocal music performed today in North India. This detailed study of the genre considers the relationship between the oral tradition, its transmission from generation to generation, and its re-creation in performance. There is an overview of the historical development of the dhrupad tradition and its performance style from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and of the musical lineages that carried it forward into the twentieth century, followed by analyses of performance techniques, processes and styles. The authors examine the relationship between the structures provided by tradition and their realization by the performer to throw light on the nature of tradition and creativity in Indian music; and the book ends with an account of the 'revival' movement of the late twentieth century that re-established the genre in new contexts. Augmented with an analytical 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Original Title
  8. Contents
  9. List of Figures
  10. List of Music Examples
  11. List of Tables and Maps
  12. Preface
  13. Acknowledgements
  14. A Note on Notations and Spellings
  15. 1 What is Dhrupad?
  16. 2 The Historical Emergence of Dhrupad Style
  17. 3 Tradition and Style: The Four Bānīs
  18. 4 The Transmission of Tradition: The Ḍāgar Heritage
  19. 5 Ālāp and Tradition
  20. 6 An Ālāp Performance in the Ḍāgar Tradition
  21. 7 Composition and Tradition
  22. 8 Performing the Composition: Rhythmic Variation and Improvisation
  23. 9 Dhrupad in the Modern World: Tradition, Performance and Revival
  24. Appendix 1: Principal Dhrupad Tāls
  25. Appendix 2: Dhrupad Lineages
  26. Appendix 3: Ālāp and Dhrupad, Rāg Multānī (Transcription)
  27. Contents of the CD
  28. Bibliography
  29. Index of Authors
  30. Index of Musicians
  31. Index of Rāga Names
  32. General Index