Copyright
David ClarkePublished On
2024-10-02Page Range
pp. xxi–xxivLanguage
- English
Print Length
4 pages
Introduction
Origins, Overview, Contexts
Chapter of: Rāgs Around the Clock: A Handbook for North Indian Classical Music, with Online Recordings in the Khayāl Style(pp. xxi–xxiv)
Here, I recount how Rāgs Around the Clock is in part rooted in an introductory course in Indian classical music developed at Newcastle University by myself (David Clarke), Vijay Rajput and Shahbaz Hussain. I further outline the basis of the book’s companion albums—Rāg samay cakra and Twilight Rāgs from North India—in theories of rāg and performing time. Finally, I summarise the book’s structure and key themes, and place it in a wider context of collaboration between Indian and western musicians and musicologists.
Contributors
David Clarke
(author)Professor of Music at Newcastle University
David Clarke is Professor of Music at Newcastle University. His wide-ranging musical and academic interests include music theory and analysis, music and philosophy, and Hindustani classical music. His musicological publications include articles, books and book chapters on twentieth-century western music, music and consciousness, and Hindustani classical music. He has studied the khayāl vocal style with Dr Vijay Rajput since 2004, and has undertaken study and participated in workshops with Pandits Rajan and Sajan Misra, Ramakant and Umakant Gundecha, Smt Veena Sahasrabuddhe, and Pandit Uday Bhawalkar.