Time in Indian music : rhythm, metre, and form in North Indian råag performance /

Time in Indian Music studies rhythm, metre, and form in North Indian rag, or classical, music. It presents a theoretical model for the organisation of time in this repertory, elucidated and illustrated with reference to many musical examples.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Clayton, Martin
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:	Oxford monographs on music.
Subjects:	Hindustani music > History and criticism. Musical meter and rhythm. Raga. Musique hindoustani > Histoire et critique. Musique > Mesure et rythme. Rāga (Forme musicale) Hindustani music Musical meter and rhythm Raga Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Theoretical perspectives I : musical time in Indian cultural perspective
Theoretical perspectives II : general theories of rhythm and metre
Tal theory as a model of rhythmic organization
Tal in practice : quantitative, qualitative, and cyclic functions
Lay: tempo and rhythmic density
Performance practice and rhythm in Hindustani music
The bandis
Development techniques and processes
Laykari: rhythmic variation
A case study in rhythmic analysis : instrumental vilambit and madhya lay gats in the repertoire of Deepak Choudhury (Maihar Gharana)
North Indian rhythmic organization in cross-cultural perspective.