source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:18:00 -0800 Subject: Re: Indian Music From: Daniel Wolf For several technical reasons, I cannot recommend the Wade volume (her volume on solo vocal music is to be recommended, however). In addition, the material on South India is cursory, and the comparison with an American pop song is really confused! If you would like in-depth work on North or South India, all of the (widely scattered) articles by Harold Powers are well worth looking into. Karnatic music is probably a clearer repertoire _and_ theoretical traditional with which to begin. For beginners, I like David Reck's PhD dissertation, _A Musician's Toolkit_ which is unfortunately only available from University Microfilms. Likewise, the dissertations of Jon Higgins (on the music for Bharata Natyam), T. Viswanathan (on Raga Alapana), and K.S. Subramanian (on a single vina tradition). In any case, I would listen to a lot of music before beginning a survey of the theoretical literature. There is simply too much irrelevant and/or inaccurate material in the literature that only an active encounter with the performed music can help sort out. Even better is to find a teacher - either Hindustani or Karnatic - to give you a grounding in raga and tala. I heartily recommend vocal lessons in combination with rhythmic training (e.g. South Indian Solkattu). Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 01:25 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA14082; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 01:25:00 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA14064 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id QAA09304; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:23:29 -0800 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 16:23:29 -0800 Message-Id: <19970325002315.13191.qmail@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu