Indian music in performance: a practical introduction
and
RAM NARAYAN
with a cassette recording by
RAM NARAYAN
Foreword by
YEHUDI MENUHIN
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
1980
Our friend Roland Viviers has scanned this entire volume and kindly sent us the images which have been reassembled in PDF format. This book is currently out of print and is being reproduced here for educational purposes only:
…all of our gratitude must go to Sorrell and Narayan, whose wonderful book/tape brings at the same time intellectual understanding and artistic enchantment (and is of great help to us westerners to understand some subtleties of raga). This book really doesn’t deserve to be forgotten as it is.
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Indian music in performance: a practical introduction
Part I (PDF~13MB)
Part II (PDF~12MB)
Audio files from cassette by Ram Narayan:
A1 - tuning
A2 - ex.26-32
A3 - text p. 83
A4 - ex.34, 35, 36
A5 - ex.37,38,39
A6 - ex.40
A7 - ex.41,42
A8 - ex.43,44,45
A9 - tabla, p. 118-120
B1 - Bhairav (ex.81,82)
C1 - Sri (ex.85 and all text of chapter 6)
April 4th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Thanks a lot for this book!
Lucas
August 4th, 2007 at 4:59 am
can someone please please please tell me where i can find videos or dvds to learning sarangi. i am at a place where no where teaches it. i am willing to pay whatever it takes to get the videos and dvds. can someone please advice me. my email address is bedroombhangra@gmail.com
June 4th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Yes, AIR has a website: http://www.allindiaradio.org/
They are selling music from their archives and from private donors . The catalogue is rather limited. For example, there is no recording of Malvika Kana who , at her prime in the late sixties was sublime. Also, there is no music of Ustad Imrat Khan, whose Yameni Bilawal on sitar which I heard in their Urdu programme , needs to be made available. It is a real gem. I suppose one could request them to expand their catalogue. Here are the e mail addresses:
delhi.dtpes@air.org.in
airlive@air.org.in
June 4th, 2007 at 12:12 am
All music-lovers will appreciate the great recordings and documents you have posted on this site. They are not only wonderful historical pieces but also educational to those of us who are not trained in the art. To encourage further Indo-Pakistani musical (and other) collaboration, perhaps you could invite Air India Radio to submit their vast collection. If the latter does have its own site I would love to learn of it.
Thank you for all your efforts and may it’s message spread wider.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Thanks a lot for this treasure and the efforts u have put into it.
March 28th, 2007 at 3:08 am
Your dedication and the supply of a treasure of subcontinental music need no appreciation, but many thanks from the core of our hearts. Please keep up.
February 21st, 2007 at 8:20 am
Thank you kindly for posting Messrs. Sorrell’s and Narayan’s book and recordings. What good fortune for a beginner to find such a treasure! Wish me well in learning the sarangi, truly the most beautiful sounding bowed string instrument I have heard, and well worth the patience and perseverance to learn to play well.
February 20th, 2007 at 6:07 am
Broadly speaking instrument playing can be divided in two stages: first, instrument playing and thereafter, music playing. So far as sarangi playing is concerned, it is a very complex process, in contrast to bamboo blowing or string hammering. It demands unusual balance over lots of unstable factors. It requires great courage to pick up this delicate but challenging instrument.
This book throws some light for those who prefers to choose the difficult path of playing the sarangi, the sweetest of all the instruments.
Thanks for the effort put into this.
- Dr. Kashyap
February 17th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
A marvellous addition to the archives. Congratulations!