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This book deals with the basic concepts and terms of music, its forms and styles. Indian melodies, i.e., ragas, all types of musical instruments, rhythmic structure, terms of dance, life and contributions of great musicians and scholars and the literature of music. Every chapter has been arranged in alphabetical order to facilitate the reader to locate the required information easily. It has also been enriched with the comprehensive index.
The cultural diversity, the staggering multiplicity of races, the linguistic and ethnic groups, religious and social organizations, agricultural practices, fairs, festivals and seasons account for an incomparable richness of folk traditions in India. an attempt has been made through a comprehensive survey of the contemporary folk forms to illustrate the salient features of this rich, complex, multilayered and multi-dimensional picture of the folk-traditions which ...
Indian classical music, especially Hindusatni Khyal music is represented by a number of stylistically different musical schools, known as Gharanas. The gharana had been interpreted to be a concept indicative of a comprehensive musicological ideology, Changing substantially from one gharana to the other and directly affecting the thinking teaching, performance and appreciation of music. These schools have their base in the traditional mode of musical training and ...