The Rags of North Indian Music: Their Structure and Evolution - Hardcover

Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8171543952 ISBN 13: 9788171543953

Publisher: South Asia Books, 2011

Synopsis

This book explores important features of Indian classical modes: the structure of melody, the effect of the drone, ornamentation and intonation, the function of accidentals and the perception of symmetries. These are related to a well-documented survey of the evolutionary processes that hae shaped the rags of today. In this new edition, an "Introduction to Technical Terms" has been added for the benefit of those not so familiar with a theorietical approach to North Indian music. A CD by Ustad Vilayat Khan illustrating the book is also available from the publishers.

About this title

About the Author

Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy (1927-) began sitar studies as a child in Bombay with Madhav Lal of Mathura. After graduation from the Doon School and the University of Washington, he was a student and faculty colleague of the late Dr. Arnold Adriaan Bake at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, receiving his doctorate in 1971. Internationally recognized as a foremost scholar of Indian music, he has received recognition for Distinguished Service by the University of California. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Ethnomusicology at UCLA, where he has taught since 1975.

Review

Professor Jairazbhoy has combined his native insights into North Indian music with his training in Western scholarship to produce a very lucid and informative account of his title's subject. His experience in teaching students of Indian music who are often ignorant of the basics when they begin has helped him write in such a way that the book may be used profitably by both the novice and the initiate.... - Charles Capwell. --Asian Music 4:2(1973)

As a thoughtful, honest and sensitive view of one man about his music, it carries an undeniable authority. - Judith Becker --Journal of ASian Studies

This book is a classic and I cannot recommend it too highly. - Reginald Massey --Making Music, autumn 1971

As a thoughtful, honest and sensitive view of one man about his music, it carries an undeniable authority. - Judith Becker --Journal of ASian Studies

This book is a classic and I cannot recommend it too highly. - Reginald Massey --Making Music, autumn 1971

Edition details

• Publisher: South Asia Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8171543952
• ISBN 13: 9788171543953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 248