1973 Music Of India Gaurang Yodh Sitar Patel Tabla Volume 2 Vinyl LP Record VG+

Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1973 Music Of India Gaurang Yodh Sitar Patel Tabla Volume 2 Vinyl LP Record VG+ Vinyl / Jacket Grade per Goldmine Standard: VG+ / VG+ SIDE ONEBehag ............................................................. 18:35SIDE TWOJaunpuri19:16The classical music of India constitutes a system independent ofWestern harmonic music. Rooted in the Indian Vedic civilization, now somethree thousand years old, contemporary Indian classical music still followsthe patterns laid down by the ancient treatises. Within that music system,there are essentially two traditions, South Indian and North Indian; it isthe latter which is recorded here.Indian music is the music of the artist and not of the composer. Aclassical composition, in a given raga (scale or mode), involves a greatdeal of spur-of-the-inspiration improvisation. The performer who mayplay the sitar, the sarode or may sing, divides the composition-performance into three parts, the first a solo with intricate variations last-ing some ten or fifteen minutes; the middle a set of theme and variations(gata and toda) for sitar and drums (tabla); and finally jalad, a rapid,complicated, intricate interchange and contest between the soloist andhis drummer.A given composition in the hands of two master musicians may lastfrom thirty to ninety minutes in an actual concert. It is in the context oflive performance before an appreciative audience that the jazz-like,improvisational qualities Of Indian classical music became apparent. Amusically moved Indian audience expresses its pleasure with swayingheads, by gently beating time with the feet, and soft shouts of “Vah!”(good) at the end of particularly exciting passages. And it is here thatthe musicians forget the normal limits of time, energy, skill and ideas,giving way to an almost endless succession of increasingly subtle andcomplex variations upon the original theme.The sitar is the solo instrument on this record. Derived from the an-cient venna, it is a stringed instrument with metal strings played by aplectrum. The strings are arranged in two layers, seven strings on thetop, fretted, another race of seven to fifteen strings in the second layer.This second race is not fretted, but drone in sympathetic vibration to theupper seven. (It is this drone which gives the instrument its particularlyrich and characteristic sound.) A significant technique, as it is in bluesguitar, is pulling or stretching a string to one side so as to raise the pitch.It is used extensively, both to obtain notes of the basic raga and toprovide subtle decoration.The tabla or drums are about 400 years old, and as such are a new-comer in this ancient music system. The tabla are actually two drums:the wood-resonator tabla played by the right hand; and the brass baya,larger and deeper of the two, played with the left. By pressing the heelof the hand on the skin head, the tone and to some extent the pitch of thedrum can be changed as it is sharply tapped by the fingers. Thus theinstrument becomes a melodic as well as rhythmic instrument.The compositions on this record are ragas, from different thats, eachto be played at a different time, each intended to convey a different mode.(Playing a raga at the wrong time is considered bad form, unmusical, andin some cases, even irreligious.)Behag is an evening Raga. It is a forceful mood, depicting a womansinging to her husband to make him happy.Jaunpuri it is also played at night. It is of ASAWARY YAUANTURI that.Both Gaurang Yodh, Ph D., and Dinesh Patel described themselvesmodestly as "amateurs,” if such a word can be applied to men who dailypractice as long as three hours. Their earnest self-appraisal says asmuch for the creative refinement of Indian classical music as it does forthe creative refinement of Indian classical music as it does for theirtactful self-appraisals. (Yodh's teacher for more than nine years inBombay practiced eight hours a day for thirty years.)The two men met in Berkeley, California, where Dr. Yodh was a prac-ticing physicist, joining to present a series of programs on Indian musicover the enterprising listener-sponsored radio station KPFA. Their successthere led eventually to appearances on NBC, a series of concerts, andultimately this record. lp5354-AZ

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