Discussion-Written Submission Three: description of a fictional people’s musical society (500 words for 10%).
Create your own original musical culture, replete with instruments, concepts and contexts of music making. Consider coming up with your own musical terms to reflect a society with a unique set of performance techniques, and/or beliefs which could include rituals, or even the mythological (7%). Consider class lectures as an example for inspiring your own material (3%). Your creation may reflect your own ideals and concerns for current times as well
LECTUREFIVE: INDIA, PAKISTAN, TUVA
1. Notes for N.Indian audio samples part one-two:
file:///Users/lixilong/Downloads/Alves%20-%20N.%20Indian%20Music.audio%20notes.PDF
2. Article on Research Models in Ethnomusicology:
file:///Users/lixilong/Downloads/Research%20Models
I. India (North and South)
Instruments:
sitar (Ravi Shankar)
sarod (Ali Akbar Khan)
shenai (Bismillah Khan)
tabla (mridangam in S. India)
tambura
Musical Cultural Terms:
hindustani (karnatak in south)
tala
solkattu (bols in N. India)
raga (one type being khamaj)
sruti (svaras)
gat
alap
vedas
rasa
gharana
kathak (Natya Shastra)
People:
Ravi Shankar (on sitar, with tabla):
(on tala):
Ali Akbar Khan (sarod):
(with Zakir Hussain, tabla):
Bols (rhythmic alphabet) on tabla:
Bismillah Khan (shenai):
(with Ravi Shankar):
Hindustani Kathak (Chitresh Das and musicians):
II. Pakistan
qawwali (sufi)
saragam (svaras, gamaka)
harmonium
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan:
vocals (with Eddie Veder) on “Dead Man Walking”:
(solo from film):
“world music” fusion collaboration (with Michael Brook, from Night Song, 1996); saragam vocal improvisation at 3:00:
III. Central Asia – Republic of Tuva (in Outer Mongolia)
hoomii (a unique form of “throat-singing” transliterated as xöömei in Tuvan)
Kongar-ol Ongar (on Letterman:
(with blues man Paul Pena):
website background:
http://www.alashensemble.com/about_tts.htm
Inuit throat-singing:
(from Jeremy Marre’s documentary “The Nature of Music”):
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REFERENCES
North India: https://www.britannica.com/art/Hindustani-music
South India:
https://www.britannica.com/art/Karnatak-music
Pakistan:
https://www.britannica.com/art/qawwali
Tuva (Central Asia – Outer Mongolia):
http://www.alashensemble.com/about_tts.htm