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2. A Cycle of Rāgs: Rāg Samay Cakra
- David Clarke(author)
Chapter of: Rāgs Around the Clock: A Handbook for North Indian Classical Music, with Online Recordings in the Khayāl Style(pp. 43–96)
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| Title | 2. A Cycle of Rāgs |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Rāg Samay Cakra |
| Contributor | David Clarke(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0313.02 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0313/chapters/10.11647/obp.0313.02 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | David Clarke |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2024-10-02 |
| Long abstract | This part of the book curates the fourteen rāgs of the Rāg samay cakra album, providing supporting materials of practical utility to students and also of interest to listeners and scholars. Of the five sections in this part, the first four are essentially prefatory. Section 2.1 includes background information about the album and summarises the conventions of the khayāl style. Section 2.2 considers the song texts: their poetics, and issues of their translation and transliteration—in short, the problematics of producing a written edition of material passed down orally through tradition. In similar vein, section 2.3 discusses the written representation of the music, and how musicians might deploy the notations supplied here within the orally transmitted conventions of extemporised performance. Section 2.4 is in effect a glossary of technical terms used to specify the rāgs of the collection. Finally, section 2.5 presents the rāgs themselves. For each, we provide a technical specification; a thumbnail description of both the rāg and of the bandiś (song) chosen to represent it; a presentation and translation of the song text; and a notation of the bandiś. |
| Page range | pp. 43–96 |
| Print length | 54 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Contributors
David Clarke
(author)Professor of Music at Newcastle University
David Clarke is Professor of Music at Newcastle University. His wide-ranging musical and academic interests include music theory and analysis, music and philosophy, and Hindustani classical music. His musicological publications include articles, books and book chapters on twentieth-century western music, music and consciousness, and Hindustani classical music. He has studied the khayāl vocal style with Dr Vijay Rajput since 2004, and has undertaken study and participated in workshops with Pandits Rajan and Sajan Misra, Ramakant and Umakant Gundecha, Smt Veena Sahasrabuddhe, and Pandit Uday Bhawalkar.