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Rag Ahir Bhairav
Gangubai Hangal (vocal) 19:34
Kishori Amonkar (vocal) 30:02 A gem !
Kumar Gandharva (vocal) 07:23
Balaram Pathak (sitar) 21:41 So unique and splendid that it is my New Year's Gift to you. Listening to this archive assures you a Year's Hapiness !
Vilayat Khan (sitar) 16:35
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Basavraj Rajguru (vocal) An old and rare 78rpm record - 03:29
Hirabai Barodekar (vocal) An old and rare recording - 05:46
Nicolas Delaigue (sitar) A talented french student of mine - 27:00
V. J. Jog (violin) Monsieur Jog. Great scholar and excellent violin player - 29:05

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Volume I. Revised and Augmented version. Paperback. 472 pages.
Out of the taxonomy of Hindustani repertoire, 74 raga-s have been described in detail. They pertain to 5 anga-s "families": Kalyan, Sarang, Bhairav, Gauri and Kanada. Remaining are miscellaneous raga-s. Like for my other books, Hindi svarlipi (music notation) has been used ! But, by now, you should be quite familiar with it ;-). Have a look to the pdf showing Contents and small excerpts . It may be ordered from the site.
ISBN 978-2-9541244-2-1
32€ (shipping charges extra / port en sus)
Major bibliographical references (descriptions, compositions, vistara-s) on North Indians Raga-s
Revised and augmented version. Paperback. 296 pages
This book is a BIBLIOGRAPHY...No rag descriptions, no compositions !

This work will prove quite useful to all musicians, scholars and students who need to consult the main contemporary texts on raga-s descriptions, compositions and melodic movements. Browsing through the many tables of contents of these works in order to extract required information, is a time consuming activity and it will be a tremendous time-saver for consultation.
It covers 3 260 bibliographical references of 704 names of raga-s found in 37 devanagari texts in 86 volumes by 23 major authors on Hindustani music.
ISBN 978-2-9541244-3-8
26€ (shipping charges extra / port en sus)
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Instrumental themes in North Indian Classical Music
First Edition. Paperback. 372 pages.
454 gata-s on 164 raga-s.
They come from miscellaneous sources : late Pandit Lal Mani Misra, Dr. K.C. Gangrade and his past masters (Ustad Rustam Khan, Pandit Dinkar Rao Patwardhan, Pandit Shankar Rao Telang), doctorate of sitar compositions I wrote, themes by various instrumentalists and a few transcribed vocal bandishes. They have all been written in Bhatkhandeji's svaralipi - music notation system - the only suitable way to write down Indian Music. It will be very fast and fun (hardly 1/2 an hour), for non Hindi readers, to learn the mere 12 symbols needed to decode the whole compilation. Could you dream of writing a sonata or a jazz theme in Indian notation ?
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Cet ouvrage présente 454 gata-s ou thèmes instrumentaux sur 164 raga-s. Ils proviennent de diverses sources : Pandit Lal Mani Misra, de Dr. K. C. Gangrade, de ses anciens maîtres, mes propres thèmes composés pour le doctorat de sitar, etc. Ils sont écrits dans le système de Pandit Bhatkhande (svarlipi), le seul parfaitement adapté à la notation de la musique de l’Inde. Son apprentissage est ludique et facile : il suffit de mémoriser 12 signes (7 notes de musique et 5 signes de métrique correspondant aux mouvements du plectre ou de l’archet) ! Heu ... rêveriez-vous d'écrire une sonate ou un thème de jazz en notation indienne ? Enfin, pas besoin d'avoir une agreg d'anglais pour comprendre le texte, essentiellement composé de thèmes.
Le seul véritable challenge pour le lecteur sera de donner vie à ces squelettes de thèmes. Pour ce faire, il devra se remémorer les caractéristiques du raga. Alors seulement, le thème sera pleinement représentatif, les improvisations seront « dedans » et le raga deviendra un être mélodique vivant. Heu ... rêveriez-vous d'écrire une sonate ou un thème de jazz en notation indienne ?
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ISBN 978-2-9541244-1-4
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