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Indian classical music is mostly leant through the Guru-Shishva parampara, which is also known as "Gurumukhi Vidya". It is oral tradition where one has to learn directly from the Guru, without taking down any notes or any help from compositions. As a result, we rarely come across an authentic book on Indian classical music, be it vocal or instrumental. Still more rare are such books which have been written by performing musicians who have had their ...
Santoor maestro Shiv Kumar Sharma is one of India’s living musical legends. Born and raised in Jammu, ‘in a house where, from dawn till dusk, someone or another was singing or playing an instrument’, Shiv Kumar Sharma began his musical life as a tabla player under the tutelage of his Benares-trained father. One day when he was fourteen, his father returned from Srinagar with a santoor and announced that he had found his son’s true calling. The bemused boy ...
Scroll painting is the most ancient form of painting still continuing in India and the neighbouringcountries. The painted scroll served multifarious functions in society, viz., as picture-books for religious and epic stories, as a source of entertainment and also as mass media. In transmitting stories and morals so derived the intenerant painter-showmen or Saubhika in ages of lesser literacy contributed considerably to society. They are persisting in a precarious ...
The present publication breaks new ground for comparatively little has been written on Scroll Painting though we have a great deal of literature on miniatures and murals. But even with regard to such articles as have been written on Scroll Painting many have been confined to particular scrolls. This is the first co-ordinated study of Scroll Painting in all its forms, dimentions and purposes. This form of painting is known from ancient times but what remains is ...
"Hindustani Music: a tradition in transition" is a wide-ranging survey of the North Indian tradition of classical music during the post-independence period. Explicitly, this book addresses music lovers of above-average familiarity with Hindustani music, and their curiosity about its inner workings. It is, however, also a valuable reference for scholars and other writers on music. The book is based on the author’s long years of ...