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Singing the praises divine : music in the Hindu tradition / by Selina Thielemann.

Title
Singing the praises divine : music in the Hindu tradition / by Selina Thielemann.
Author
Thielemann, Selina.
Publication
New Delhi : A.P.H. Pub. Corp., 2000.

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Description
ii, 175 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Subject
  • Hindu music > History and criticism
  • Vaishnava music > History and criticism
  • Music > India > History and criticism
  • Songs > India > History and criticism
  • Dhrupad > India > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Includes passages in Hindi
Contents
The divinity of sound : music in the Indian religious tradition -- The concept of bhakti in Hindu traditions and its bearing on Indian music -- Vrindaban : sacred spot and center of life -- Devotional songs of Vraja in the cycle of seasons -- Rāga in context : the treatment of melody types in aṣṭayāma sevā and Vaiṣṇava liturgies -- Enacting divine deeds : the rāsalīlā dramas of Vraja -- The description of the rāsa krīḍā in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa and its elaboration in devotional poetry : the mahārāsa verses of Paramānanda Dāsa -- The poet-singers of Vraja and their musico-literary heritage -- Professor Josef Kuckertz and his research into the Vaiṣṇava songs of Karnataka -- Havelī saṃgīta : music, space and ritual in the Vaiṣṇava temples of North India -- Dhrupada : the foundation of North Indian music -- The principal gharānās of classical dhrupada -- Dhrupada in the Vaiṣṇava temples : the genre as living presence -- The Vraja Kalā Gurukula : an institution for dhrupada.
ISBN
8176481653
LCCN
^^^00289468^
OCLC
45086824
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library