Download or read book Ritual Music and Hindu Rituals of Kerala written by Rolf Killius and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book and the Goddess Loves Music written by Rolf Killius and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of this website is to introduce the reader to the numerous and complex religious ritual and ritual music styles of the Hindu population of Kerala, southwest India. The audio examples and photographs are from the Traditional Music in India project, and the texts are based on field research done in 1995-7 and 2000-2 by the author, Rolf Killius. Kshetram are the tiny Kerala temples surrounded by paddy fields, coconut and areca nut trees. The ritual experts, the Namputiri Brahmin, conduct the religious rituals, ceremonies, and festivals. Professional musician communities (especially the Marar or Pooduval) accompany the rituals with a bewildering variety of musical genres and instruments (vadyam), thus creating an aesthetically pleasing atmosphere for the goddess and her devotees.
Download or read book Music and Temples a Ritualistic Approach written by L. Annapoorna and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Present Theme Has Two Specific Purposes Of Establishing The Importance That A Music Compo
Download or read book Music Rituals in the Temples of South India written by Geetha Rajagopal and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a wealth of information on the music rituals in temples at various places in south India. Following visits to a number of temples and based on interviews with temple artistes, the author shows that the musical traditions of temples differ from temple to temple, particularly from Vaishnavite to Shaivite temples. Beginning with the place of music in the Vedas, the book discusses music itself as a form of worship and the role of temples in promoting it. It focuses on the musical contributions of Nayanmars and Alvars whose hymns are sung today as a daily ritual in many temples, and compares their music. It concentrates on both vocal and instrumental music, dance forms as rituals in temples, and music and singing involved in temple festivals. Many interesting inscriptions and sculptures related to dance and music have also been taken up for discussion. In a fascinating attempt, the author has dealt with unique music traditions in some temples of south India like ragas associated with specific temples only and the tradition of nadasvaram playing in Tiruvarur temple. The volume will enthral scholars of Indology, particularly those involved in study of religious art and music traditions.
Download or read book Sonic Liturgy written by Guy L. Beck and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonic Liturgy: Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition builds on the foundation of Guy L. Beck's earlier work, which described the theoretical role of sound in Hindu thought. Sonic Liturgy continues the discussion of sound into the realm of Hindu ritual and musical traditions of worship. Beginning with the chanting of the Sama-Veda alongside the fire sacrifices of the ancient Indo-Aryans and with the classical Gandharva music as outlined in the musicological texts of Bharata and Dattila, Beck establishes a historical foundation for an in-depth understanding of the role of music in the early Puja rituals and Indian theater in the vernacular poetry of the Bhakti movements in medieval temple worship of Siva and Vishnu in southern India, and later in the worship of Krishna in the northern Braj region. By surveying a multitude of worship traditions, Beck reveals a continuous template of interwoven ritual and music in Hindu tradition that he terms "sonic liturgy," a structure of religious worship and experience that incorporates sound and music on many levels. In developing the concept and methods for understanding the phenomenon of sonic liturgy, Beck draws from liturgical studies and ritual studies, broadening the dimensions of each, as well as from recent work in the fields of Indian religion and music. As he maps the evolution of sonic liturgy in Hindu culture, Beck shows how, parallel to the development of religious ritual from ancient times to the present, there is a less understood progression of musical form, beginning with Vedic chants of two to three notes to complicated genres of devotional temple music employing ragas with up to a dozen notes. Sonic liturgy in its maturity is manifest as a complex interactive worship experience of the Vaishnava sects, presented here in Beck's final chapters.
Download or read book Ritual songs and folksongs of the Hindus of Surinam written by Swami Veda Bharati and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1968 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Temple Musical Instruments of Kerala written by L. S. Rajagopalan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The performing arts of Kerala Kathakali, Kutiyattam, Mohiniattam, and other forms of dance and drama occupy a vital space in India s creative imagination. All these performances move to a music that is supported by Kerala s indigenous musical instruments a variety of drums and clappers, as well as a smaller number of pipes and strings. Quite a few of these instruments are also found associated with rituals and festivities in the temples of Kerala: the Itakka, Chenta, Timila, Milavu, Suddha Maddalam all membranophones; the aerophones Kurum Kulal and Kompu Vadyam; and Ilattalam, an idiophone. Notes on these instruments by a devoted student of the performing arts of Kerala are put together in this small volume the first English-language publication on the subject. Illustrations of each instrument accompany the texts. The author brings to his task the benefit of an intimate knowledge of each instrument, acquired through years of fieldwork, as well as an erudition born of his immersion in literary classics in Tamil, Malayalam and Sanskrit. The pieces here are a source too of the folklore associated with Kerala s musical instruments. The chief strength of the book, however, lies in the precise information it provides on each instrument its dimensions, materials, construction, playing techniques, methods of training, and, not least, its music. Apart from musicians and musicologists, this book would interest students of Kerala s folklore and anthropology, as well as general readers with a special interest in the arts and culture of Kerala.
Download or read book The Divine Frenzy written by Pepita Seth and published by Westzone Pub Limited. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature has always played a large part in the spiritual and cerebral landscape of Kerala. This volume is a document of its people's perception of Nature's power and mystery. Hinduism here worships the same deities as the rest of India; it is her relationship to these deities that sets Kerala apart. These photographs chart the way in which the people of this region fuse with their land and their gods - allowing the reader to observe how both have been sublimely understood.
Download or read book Ritual songs and folksongs of the Hindus of Surinam written by Swami Veda Bharati and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1968 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teyyam written by V. Jayarajan and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains and account of teyyam, a divine dance of north Kerala in which the performer after undergoing several rituals becomes a deity. It is a an investigation into the historical, mythological, anthropological, sociological as well as the artistic aspects of teyyam. This book brings into focus the totality of this cult, highlighting the time and space of teyyam, the performing communities, various cults with its mythological backgrounds, the traditional art including painting, costumes, music along with the performance structure.
Download or read book Ritual Songs and Folksongs of the Hindus of Surinam written by Arya and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1968-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music written by Joseph P. Swain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred music is a universal phenomenon of humanity. Where there is faith, there is music to express it. Every major religious tradition and most minor ones have music and have it in abundance and variety. There is music to accompany ritual and music purely for devotion, music for large congregations and music for trained soloists, music that sets holy words and music without words at all. In some traditions—Islamic and many Native American, to name just two--the relation between music and religious ritual is so intimate that it is inaccurate to speak of the music accompanying the ritual. Rather, to perform the ritual is to sing, and to sing the ritual is to perform it. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on major types of music, composers, key religious figures, specialized positions, genres of composition, technical terms, instruments, fundamental documents and sources, significant places, and important musical compositions. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about sacred music.
Download or read book Marginalised Music written by Lidia Guzy and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4e de couv.: This volume presents the results of a pioneering anthropological documentation of hitherto unknown traditions of sacred music performed by marginalised musicians and priest-musicians of the Bora Sambar region of western Odisha. The work is based on ethnographic research in rural regions of western Odisha conducted between the years 2002 - 2010. The study presents the first documentation of a unique sound culture of India, Odisha. Local music is analysed as an indigenous theory, thus as a crucial medium of religion, culture and politics.
Download or read book South India written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ritual Songs and Folksongs of the Hindus of Surinam written by Swami Veda Bharati and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections of the Spirit written by Pepita Seth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections Of The Spirit Is The Outcome Of The 30 Years Pepita Seth Has Spent Photographing Hindu Rituals In India S South-Western State Of Kerala. More Specifically, It Focuses On The Seven Years She Has Devoted To The Ancient Malabar Performance-Ritual
Download or read book Vanishing Temple Arts written by Deepti Omchery Bhalla and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books dealing with ritualistic music, devotional dance forms and allied arts of Kerala arerare. Not much research has gone deep into these areas which cut across the periphery andsuperficial layers and touch the real core. The reasons could be many the practitionersinability to verbalise the content and substance of their art and their inhibition to violatethe rigid, protective, orthodox rules and norms intended to preserve their sanctity.The concept of Sangeetam that is Geetam, Vadyam and Nrityam or the Triad Arts, existedbefore fifteenth century, is still in vogue in the music of Kerala temples.This book deals with the Sopaana music, the traditional music of Kerala and seeks tothrow light on various ritualistic music and musical instruments and ritualistic dance Thalinanka Nrityam the precursor of Mohiniattam. Many facts and information relatedto the three areas, which were rarely known have been identified through systematicresearch of primary and secondary sources, especially the information contained in theold palm leaf manuscripts collected from ancient families and temples. It is hoped thatthe work will pave the way for those who want to go further in studying the temple arts ofKerala.
