Author: Anjali Mittal
Publisher: D K Printworld
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 174
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8124601348
Description
With its roots in the Samaveda (which treats it as a divine art), music in India has a long, splendid tradition. Over the centuries, it has absorbed fresh influences and experimented with new forms to finally evolve into two meticulously codified classical systems: Hindustani and Carnatic. In today’s growing library of writings on Hindustani music, Anjali Mittal’s research is yet another valuable addition adopting as it does, a viewpoint which has been neglected so far, namely, the view point of contemporary western aesthetics.
It is for the first time that this monograph examines the concept of form in Hindustani classical music. In this context, analytic attention has been focused on some select compositions in dhruvapada, damar, tarana, vilambit and drut khyal genres of Hindustani classical vocal music. A wide variety of drut tanas has also been analyzed in terms of notation and linear diagrams. Such diagrams, in fact, distinguish the present volume. Analysis of some rhythm-cycles and rhythmic patterns is another feature of this book.
Thoroughly documented and written in a jargon-free language, the study includes a contextual discussion of aesthetics, artistic expression, aesthetic predicates and, above, all, the concept of artistic form. The work may be expected to interest all those who want an analytic understanding of what form (or bandisa) means in the region of Hindustani classical vocal music.
Contents
Preface
Philosophical Aesthetics: Approaches and Concepts
Of Artistic Expression
Form in Art
Aesthetic Predicates
The Knitwork of Musical Form
Conclusion
Appendix:
Linear Diagrams of the Form of Some Tanas Maps
Glossary
Bibliography
Index