Companion To North Indian Classical Music

Description

With more than 1200 entries, this book gives in an intelligible and straightforward manner information about various ragas of Hindustani music and their scales and performance times, tals used, its structure and ehtos, nomenclature and terms in currency; historical background and development of forms, and various genres and gharanas: biographical notes about the outstanding artists and performers, both vocalists and instrumentalists of the 20th century besides musicologists of note and information about various musical instruments and their evolution. Appendices also include a comprehensive list of ragas and their scales, etc. and Discography giving details of cassettes and CDs to facilitate listening to good music, and performances by maestros.