Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music - Couverture souple

Sanyal, Ritwik; Widdess, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1032389168 ISBN 13 : 9781032389165

Editeur : Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ritwik Sanyal is a retired professor of the Department of Vocal Music, Banaras Hindu University. He also a recipient of one of India's highest civilian honours, the Padma Shri. A disciple of the late Zia Mohiuddin and Zia Fariduddin Dagar, and a leading exponent of the Dagar dhrupad tradition, he performs and teaches dhrupad internationally, and is a composer of new dhrupad compositions, with many CD recordings to his credit. He holds a PhD in musicology and is the author of Philosophy of Music (1987) and Dhrupad Panchashika (2015). In 2013 he received the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi National Award (New Delhi) for Hindustani Classical Vocal Music.

Richard Widdess is Emeritus Professor of Musicology in the Department of Music, School of Arts, SOAS University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He specialises in the musicology of South Asia, with reference to the history, theory and analysis of vocal music traditions in North India and Nepal. He is the author of The Rāgas of Early Indian Music (1995) and Dāphā Sacred Singing in a South Asian City (2013).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032389168
• ISBN 13: 9781032389165
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 422
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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