Readings for this week:
David B. Reck, "India/South India" in Worlds of Music. 5th edition, Jeff Todd Titon, ed. (New York: Schirmer Books, 2009), pp. 179–87, 191–208.
Kassebaum, Gayathri Rajapur, "Karnatak Raga" in South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent. Alison Arnold, ed. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000), pp. 89–109.
Notes on Carnatic Ragas
Notes on Ragam-Tanam-Pallavi
Listening chart for Ninnadanela
Analysis of Sara sasamadana
Examples of Ragam Bhairavi
Examples of
Reading for next Wednesday:
Michael Bakan, "From Raga to Bollywood, " in World Music: Traditions and Transformations, 2nd ed., edited by Michael Bakan (McGraw-Hill, 2012), pp. 115–42.
Additional Readings
David Paul Nelson, "Karnatak Tala, " in South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent, pp. 138–61.
Amy Catlin, "Karnatak Vocal and Instrumental Music," in South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent, pp. 209–36.
David P. Nelson, Solkattu Manual: An Introduction to the Rhythmic Language of South Indian Music (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008)