Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Original Title
Contents
List of Figures
List of Music Examples
List of Tables and Maps
Preface
Acknowledgements
A Note on Notations and Spellings
1 What is Dhrupad?
	A View from the Audience
	A View from the Platform
	A Problem of Definition
	The Structure of Performance
	Melody
		Rāg
		Melodic Style
		Intonation
	Rhythm and Metre
		Ālāp
		Tāl and Time-keeping
		Melodic Rhythm
		Laykārī
	Text
	The Dhrupad Repertory
		Cautāl Dhrupad
		Dhamār
		Sādrā
		Fast Dhrupads
		Other Items
		The Talwanḍī Gharānā Repertory
	Instruments
		Accompaniment and Ensemble
		Pakhāvaj
		Rudrā Vīṇā
		Other Instruments
	Singers
		The Senīyā Tradition
		Regional Dhrupad Traditions
	Dhrupad Ideology
2 The Historical Emergence of Dhrupad Style
	Dhrupad at the Mughal Court
		Origins
		Composition
		Performance
		Style and Transmission
	The Rise of Khyāl and Decline of Dhrupad
	The Nineteenth Century: Willard and Imām
	Conclusions
3 Tradition and Style: The Four Bānīs
	The Origins of Bānī
	The Four Bānīs
		Sources
		Bānī as a Synaesthetic Concept
		Bānī and Gīti
		The Gauḍahār Bānī
		The Ḍāgar Bānī
		The Khaṇḍār Bānī
		The Nauhār Bānī
	The Fate of the Bānīs
4 The Transmission of Tradition: The Ḍāgar Heritage
	Sources of Tradition
	Bahrām Khān
		Bahrām Khān at Jaipur
		Bahrām Khān the Musician
		Bahrām Khān the Teacher
		Bahrām Khān’s Origins
	Bahrām Khān’s Successors
	The Ḍāgar Heritage in the Twentieth Century
	Transmitting the Ḍāgar Bānī
		Aesthetic Concepts
		The Musical Repertory
		The Teacher-Pupil Relationship
		Tālīm
		Institutional Transmission
5 Ālāp and Tradition
	Function, Form and Process
	Traditional Aspects of Ālāp Performance
		Ālapti
		The Stages of Ālāp
		The Nom Tom Syllables
		The Mukhṛā
		Lakṣaṇas
	Aesthetic and Philosophical Concepts
6 An Ālāp Performance in the Ḍāgar Tradition
	Analysing Ālāp Performance
		Objectives
		Representing Melody and Rhythm
	Rāg Multānī
	Slow Ālāp
		The Opening
		Slow Ālāp: Sthāyī
		Slow Ālāp: Antarā
	Medium Ālāp
	Fast Ālāp
		Rhythm in Fast Ālāp
	Tradition in Performance
7 Composition and Tradition
	Dhrupad Compositions as Cultural Objects
	Origins and Transmission
	Identity
	Form
	The Formal Archetype
	Origins of the Archetype
	Composition and Tradition
8 Performing the Composition: Rhythmic Variation and Improvisation
	‘Fixed’ and ‘Free’ Laykārī
	Historical Context
		Augmentation and Diminution
		Historical Evidence for Improvisation
	Laykārī in the Talwanḍī Style
		Śuddh Gait
		Āṛ Gait
		Kuāṛ Gait
		Viāṛ Gait
	Laykārī in the Darbhangā Style
	Laykārī in the Ḍāgar Style
		General Characteristics of Style: Ritwik Sānyāl
		The Articulation of Metrical Space
		Tihāī
		Improvising Laykārī
9 Dhrupad in the Modern World: Tradition, Performance and Revival
	The Dhrupad Revival
		The Ḍāgar Family and the Beginnings of Revival
		‘Festivalization’
		Transmission
		Dhrupad Overseas
		Media
	Festivals of Dhrupad
		Banāras and Vrindāban: Inception and Organization
		Two Symbols
		Three Individuals
		Dhrupad and Wrestling: Tradition and Modernity
		Continuity and Change
		Other Festivals
	Revival and Change
Appendix 1: Principal Dhrupad Tāls
Appendix 2: Dhrupad Lineages
Appendix 3: Ālāp and Dhrupad, Rāg Multānī (Transcription)
Contents of the CD
Bibliography
Index of Authors
Index of Musicians
Index of Rāga Names
General Index