Music 224 Week 6
Contemporary Indian music and the West

 

Required Reading and listening

 

Scott, Stanley. “Modernism in South Asian Art Music." In The Modernist World, edited by Stephen Ross and Allana C. Lindgren (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015), 136–44.

 

Corbett, John. “Experimental Oriental: New Music and Other Others." In Western Music and Its Others, edited by Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000, 163–86..

 

Bhagwati, Sandeep. “Stepping on the Cracks or, How I Compose With Indian Music in Mind." The World of Music, 45/2 (2003): 113–24.

 

Ensemble Modern. Conversation with Indian improvisors working with Ensemble Modern on Bhagwati's Rasalîla

 

Powerpoint on Carnatic Music

 

Powerpoint on Hindustani Music, 1

 

Powerpoint on Hindustani Music, 2

 

Indian Contemporary Music Playlist

 

Sandeep Bhagwati's Soundcloud page (some samples of work in article)

 

Rajesh Mehta's Sky Cage live

 

Program notes on Imrat Khan

 

Analysis No. 3

John Mayer, Six Ragamalas for solo cello and tanpura(1983), movement V as pdf and Word doc, score, due March 6

 

Scores

John Mayer, Six Ragamalasfor Cello and Tampura (1983)

 

Vaneet Shende, Reva’s Lullaby for guitar (2017)

 

Sandeep Bhagwati, Pradham Samagam (2006)

 

Sandeep Bhagwati, Stele V for Druba Ghosh (2022)

 

John Cage, Songbooks No. 58 (1970)

 

Albert Roussel, Evocations, No. 3 (1910-11)

 

Additional Readings

Carnatic Music

 

David B. Reck, India/South India, Chapter 6 of Worlds of Music, 3rd shorter edition, ed. Jeff Titon (Schirmer, 2008).

 

Ragam-Tanam-Pallavi outline.

 

Listening map for Ninnadanela

 

Listening map for Sarasamadana

 

Applying Karnatic Rhythmical Techniques to Western Music.

 

Hindustani Music

 

Michael B. Bakan, part of "From raga to bollywood," in World Music: Traditions and Transformations, 2nd ed. (McGraw-Hil, 2012).

 

Notes on Hindustani music.

 

Tala notes.

 

Transcription for Rag Alhaiya bilaval (Khyal), Shruti Sadolikar Katkar.

 

Notes on Rag Miyan Ki Todi.

 

Notes on Shobha Gurtu

 

Glossary of Hindustani terms.

 

Open Stax lesson on Indian Classical Music.

 

Indian heritage music.

 

Music of India, Chandrakantha and David Courtney.

 

Indian Classical Music

Ragopedia

 

Tabla for beginners.

 

The Raga Guide (NAXOS)

 

Indian Music and the West

 

Cage, John. "East in West." Asian Music, 1/1 (1968-69), 15-18.

 

Cuni, Amelia. “Chance Generate Ragas in Solo for Voice 58: A Dhrupad Singer Performs John Cage.” Journal of the Indian Musicological Society 41 (2011): 127–54.

 

Farrell, Gerry. “Indian Music and Jazz: Reflections of Form Indian Music and the West.” Indian Music and the West (1999): 188–200.

 

“Divergent Dreams.” In Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: The Music and Mysticism of La Monte Young (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 99–113.

 

Pasler, Jann. ”Race, Orientalism, and Distinction in the Wake of the 'Yellow Peril.’”, In Writing through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2007), 249-82.

 

Silverman, Kenneth. Excerpt, from Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2012), 272–74.

 

Welch, Allison. “Meetings Along the Edge: Svara and Tala in American Minimal Music.” American Music 17/2 (1999): 179–99.