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Indian Music: Historical & Spiritual Ties to Hinduism & Vedic Traditions - Prof. Stanley C, Study notes of Music

This lecture handout and examination study guide explore the relationships between indian music, hindu religion, and vedic traditions. How musical cultures vary in response to universal constraints on music making, focusing on indian classical music. Key instruments and terms are introduced, along with study questions that delve into historical and spiritual connections, differences in hindu and muslim attitudes towards music, and the influence of these traditions on karnatak and hindustani music. Useful for university students taking courses on music history or culture.

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Uploaded on 09/17/2009

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Download Indian Music: Historical & Spiritual Ties to Hinduism & Vedic Traditions - Prof. Stanley C and more Study notes Music in PDF only on Docsity! Lecture Handout and Examination Study Guide Indian Music To Consider: Different musical cultures in the world can be seen as “the result of the working out within particular cultural contexts of subtly different responses to certain universal constraints on music making--such as those on perception, cognition, and memory--slight differences whose results are noneteless compounded over historical time to produce significantly different sonic results.” Martin Clayton, Time in Indian Music (2000), p. 5. Instruments: tambura (Sa; Pa; Ni) sitar sarod tabla (dahina or dayan, and bayan) bols Mridangam (often Mrigangdam) Bansuri (Krishna) Other Terms: Natyasastra Rasa Kathak dance Karnatak (Carnatic) Music Tyagaraja Hindustani Music Tansen lay raga(m)