Music in South India

Name: Music in South India
Brand: OUP USA
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The Karnatak Concert Tradition and Beyond. Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture.

AvTanjore Viswanathan,Matthew Harp Allen

OUP USA

2004

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Beskrivning

This vivid introduction to the music of South India discusses historical and contemporary performance, cultural history and geography, and the social organization of performance traditions. It focuses primarily on Karnatak concert music and its formal conventions, modes of performance, and cultural influence within the context of the religious, historical, and political landscape of South India.

Produktinformation

Märke:OUP USA
Utgivningsdatum:2004-01-15
Höjd:210 x 154 x 8 mm
Vikt:222 g
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Global Music Series
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:OUP USA
EAN:9780195145915

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Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur
Världsmusik inom Kultur

Innehållsförteckning

Forward: Preface: CD Track List: 1. Song in South IndiaBhajan (Devotional Song)Songs and Singing: Meaning of the Text: Devotion, Love, and Praise: Celebrating Tyagaraja in the United States and in South India: Languages of the Region: Kriti: Evolution of KritiText and Context--a Continuum of Performance from Devotion to Virtuosity: Music, Language, and Politics: The Tamil Music Movement: Muttuttandavar (Seventeenth Century): The Text of "I Trusted You/Unnai Nambinen" (CD track 3)The Musical Setting of "I Trusted You/Unnai Nambinen" (CD track 3)The Group's Progress Through the KritiThe Ensemble: The Instruments: Violin (Chordophone); Mridarigam (Membranophone); Tambura (Chordophone) and Its Sruti, Drone, Function: Summary2. Key Concepts in Karnatak MusicTala: Meter and Rhythm in Karnatak MusicThe Five "Families" of Rhythm and Drummers' Thinking: Hand Gestures and Vocalized Syllable Sequences for Commonly Used Td=alas: Tala Exercises in Three Speeds: Raga: Melody in Karnatak MusicScale: Note (Svara) and Solfege Syllable Names: Kiravd=ani and Kapi Ragas: Raga as a "Vast Ocean"Ornamentation (Gamaka)Phrase (Sañcara or Prayoga): Phrases in Kiravani and Kapi RagasFunctional Notes--Svaras Holding Particular FunctionsIntegrated Melodic-Rhythmic TrainingSummary3. The Karnatak Concert TodayPresentation and Discussion of the "Main Piece" of a ConcertThe Setting: Tuning Up: Beginning: Kriti as an Orally Transmitted Composed Case of a PerformanceBrief Guide to the PerformanceComposition and Improvisation: Fixity and Fluidity: Kiravani Raga Alapana: Aesthetics and Dynamics of AccompanimentKriti: The Core Component: The Pallavi; The Anupallavi and Pallavi reprise; The Caranam and Pallavi RepriseNiravalSvara Kalpana: Different Ways to Improvise: A Comparison of Niraval and Svara KalpanaTani Avarttanam--Drum SoloSummary4. Contextualizing South Indian Performance, Socially and HistoricallyWomen and Music: The Devadasi and Her CommunityWomen's Public Performance Circa 1900: Loss and Recovery of a Woman's Work: "Now We Women Have a Platform to Commence Singing"--Bangalore Nagarathnammal and the Tyagaraja Festival: Bangalore Nagarathnammal as a Performer: Sringara Bhakti: Being in Love with God; Listening through the Static: The Rise of Audio RecordingMen and Music: From Temple and Court to Public and State PatronageMen's Performance in Precolonial South India: The Hereditary Male Temple Service Musician: The "Emperor of Nagasvaram": T.N. Rajarattinam Pillai: "The Audience Would Not Be Satisfied If He Did Not Play This Raga"; Alapana in Todi RagaA New World of Performance: Concert Halls, Media, and Audiences in the Urban EnvironmentThe Development of Radio: The Recording Industry: Commodification and Resistance: "The Effect of the Performance Should Be Such As to Keep the Listeners Spell-Bound:" Men Scripting and Singing Women's Inner FeelingsA Hereditary Music FamilyA Dual Musical Enculturation and Education: "I Am Going to Snub These Male Chauvinists": Music and Gender Today: Summary: An Ancient and Modern Tradition of Musical-Social Behavior5. Regional and Modern Traditions: Contemporary Music Making in South India and BeyondMusic in KeralaIdakka, a Pressure Drum from Kerala: Kathakali Dance Drama: Character Types, Costume, and Makeup; Changes in the Twentieth CenturyThe Kathakali Music EnsembleKathakali Songs: Slokam and PadamPerformance of Padam from Nala CaritamMusic of the Cinema in South IndiaThe "Company Drama" and the Silent Cinema: Early Sound Films: The "Mythological": The "Social": The Playback Singer: The Cinema and Karnatak Music: A Parting of Ways: "When I Say Come/Ba Ennalu"Cross-Cultural Composition and Collaboration"Can There Be Release/Moksamu Galada?"Tatva, a Regional Performance Tradition in Karnataka StateThe Deccan Plateau: Meeting of North and South India: The Kannada Tatva Composer Sharif SahebHindu-Muslim Relations in Karnataka State: Katha Performers of the Kinnari Jogi Community"Why Do You Worry/Yake Cinti?"A Circle Completed: SummaryGlossary: Resources: Index: