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Khyal - Creativity Within North India's Classical Music Tradition by Bonnie C. Wade
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This book is a study of khyal, the genre of North Indian classical music which has dominated in performances by highly trained vocalists for at least the past 150 years. It is also a study of cultural history. Spanning as it does a good portion of the periods of the British Raj in India, the struggle fo ...Show more
The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music by Hormoz Farhat
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The tradition of Persian art music embodies twelve modal systems, known as dastgahs. Each dastgah represents a complex of skeletal melodic models on the basis of which a performer produces extemporised pieces. The dastgahs revolve around unspecified central nuclear melodies which the individual musician ...Show more
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