Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Karlheinz Stockhausen on music

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Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) was a genius who redefined music . He is regarded as the most daringly original (Western music) composer ...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Yashwant Buwa Joshi – “The basic requirement of music is a magical quality called “Rang”

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Yashwant Buwa spoke to Deepak Raja on June 5, 2003 I was born and brought up in Pune. My father operated a couple of cabs in the city. H...
Saturday, September 5, 2009

Lyle Wachovsky's introduction to "Khayal Vocalism: Continuity within Change"

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Deepak Raja's second book is a comprehensive study of khayal vocalism through the stylistic analysis of nineteen contemporary vocalists....
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Sampoorna Malkuns: the concept and its manifestations

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Though there are, indeed, raga-s by this name, Sampoorna Malkauns cannot be considered the name of a specific raga with well-defined melodic...
Saturday, August 8, 2009

Bahadur Khan -- Undeserved Oblivion

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Bahadur Khan (1931-1989) was an outstanding, though inadequately recognised, sarodist, trained by his uncle, the legendary Ustad Alauddin Kh...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Shujaat Khan – “Most duets are a farce”

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Shujaat spoke to Deepak Raja on September 18, 2002 Surprising as it might seem, I am not a great enthusiast of the duet in Hindustani mus...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Raga Desh – classicist as well as romanticist

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Peter Manuel, an authority on the thumree and allied genres, has listed Desh amongst “thumree ragas” – ragas of the Khamaj parent scale, fre...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Raga Vachaspati in Hindustani music

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Vachaspati is a Carnatic raga, representing the Vachaspati parent-scale (64th Melakarta). In its Hindustani adaptation, it has the tone mate...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Bahauddin Dagar -- “In the beginning, your Ustad teaches you; thereafter, your instrument teaches you”

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Bahauddin spoke to Deepak Raja on 9/11/02 People often introduce me as the 20th generation of the Dagar lineage, referring to Nayak Harid...
Monday, March 30, 2009

Raga Hemant: Genesis and trajectory

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This essay is now published in my fourth book: Removing it from here was proper, though not obligatory, in order th...