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 | | Dhrupad began as a form of meditation and then later went to become a form of expression. | | | This journey from the religious to the secular reached a culmination in the court of Raja Mansingh Tomar of Gwalior in the 16th century. | | | With time, even the language of dhrupad changed from Sanskrit to Braj Bhasa in the period between the 12th and 16th century. |
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http://www.3to6.com/final_music/feature-dhrupad.htm
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| | Encyclopedia: Dhrupad |
| | Dhrupad is the oldest surviving genre of classical singing in northern India; its name, from dhruva-pada, seems to mean "fixed verse". | | | The word "been" is a Bengali form of the Sanskrit "veena", the generic word used for plucked-string instruments all over India. | | | From what we know, dhrupad originated as devotional singing in Hindu temples. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Dhrupad
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| | North Indian Classical: Dhrupad |
| | However many of the codifications of dhrupad are dated more specifically to the same period as the origin of khayal, and the two might be viewed more accurately as parallel developments, although dhrupad is certainly more austere in its formalism. | | | In this respect, it is perhaps the most direct development of Vedic chanting, and the literal respect for text in dhrupad is representative of those scriptural ideas. | | | Asad Ali Khan plays a different style of dhrupad (and consequently rudra veena) from the Dagar family. |
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http://www.medieval.org/music/world/dhrupad.html
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| | DHRUPAD: An Ancient Tradition by Sunil Dutta |
| | Dhrupad probably evolved from the earlier chanting of om, the sacred syllable which is claimed in Hindu canon to be the source of all creation. | | | One significant characteristic of dhrupad is the emphasis on maintaining purity of the ragas and the swaras (notes). | | | The continuity of dhrupad, a contemplative and meditative form, has been sustained by traditions of devotional music and worship. |
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http://www.raga.com/text/221dhrupad_text.html
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| | Dhrupad An Invocation, Indian music tradition, musicians, ragas |
| | Consequently, Dhrupad was devotional in nature, an invocation to the gods, sung exclusively in places of worship. | | | The Bhakti (devotion) period was the phase when amalgamation of religions occurred and dhrupad found great patronage in the courts of kings. | | | Music therefore is interwoven with religion and Dhrupad still retains this relationship. |
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http://www.indiaprofile.com/religion-culture/dhrupad.htm
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| | Dhrupad |
| | Dhrupad emphasizes a slow, meditative rendition of the alap using sacred Sanskrit syllables derived from Sanskrit mantras. | | | Despite its evolution, Dhrupad has preserved its pristine, spiritual nature and we hear this majestic music performed today as it was more than five hundred years ago. | | | Dhrupad puts great emphasis on the purity of raga and swara (intonation). |
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http://www.shantishivani.com/Dhrupad.htm
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| | The distinguishing characteristic of alap and dhrupad is their spirituality (ruhaniyat), and the objective in singing them is zikr-e-ilahi, "Praising the name of God". | | | Alap and dhrupad of the Talwandi gharana are thus religious in character and objective, as in most other traditions, but in an Islamic guise. | | | Typical subjects for Talwandi dhrupads are the seasons, mysticism, and Hindu mythology. |
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http://web.ukonline.co.uk/richard.widdess/talvandi/talvandi.ascii.nodiacritics
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| | Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia |
| | The themes explored in Dhrupad can be traced back to the ancient texts of the Sam Veda and are spiritual in nature. | | | In Dhrupad, first and foremost, the purity of the notes is very important, and that is what attracted us," says Ramakant. | | | Someone once remarked 'the history of people is found in its songs.' For the Gundecha Brothers, history repeats itself in every note of the pristine tunes of Dhrupad, giving us a beautiful glimpse of India's glorious past. |
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http://www.5h.org/concert/artists/dhrupad.html
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| | The Music Magazine -- India's first and finest music e-zine |
| | The ustad comes from a family that has nurtured and preserved the dhrupad tradition for 20 generations, and this pride is reflected in everything he says. | | | Once in a while, when he is in Bangalore, he stays and teaches in Banashankari, at the house of his disciple Vandana. | | | Alladiya Khan had learnt dhrupad, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan had learnt the sarangi, then learnt the dhrupad... |
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http://www.themusicmagazine.com/faridint.html
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| | Visually challenged Pakistan girl masters Dhrupad:- - News - Webindia123.com |
| | She says it would be her endeavour to teach the nuances of Dhrupad to people in Pakistan. | | | I would tell my countrymen that Dhrupad was sung in the temples in the erstwhile eras but it has nothing to do with any particular religion. | | | But now she is leaving, we are very sad," said Sunderbai Gundecha, mother of Gundecha brothers. |
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http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=78727&cat=India
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| | The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Himachal Pradesh |
| | Today, he is a sangeet ratna, a dhrupad ratna, the Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan award recipient, et al. | | | My singing is my aaradhna.” The quintessential part of dhrupad is its inclination towards spiritualism. | | | Earlier, the students lived in the home of their Guru and devoted themselves to riyaz. |
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http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010925/himachal.htm
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| | Recordings |
| | In this beautiful and enlightening presentation, internationally acclaimed teacher, vocalist and sound healer Shanti Shivani introduces the mystic practice of NadaYoga (the Yoga of Sound) as a means of healing, empowerment and self-realization. | | | The music - a fusion of classical East Indian Dhrupad and Gregorian Chant - is a meeting of East and West, of two ancient spiritual traditions, of two harmonic languages. | | | Nada Yoga is the core of Dhrupad, the most ancient style of Hindustani Classical Music. |
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http://www.shantishivani.com/Music.html
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| | Training youngsters in dhrupad gayaki : Onlypunjab.com Team- Onlypunjab.com Regional News |
| | Right now, he is ensconced in the campus of the IIT, Mumbai, which has established a gurukul by the name of ‘Dhrupad Sansar’ for him. | | | Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar, who honed his musical skills on the seaside in Mumbai with waves as accompaniment as he could not even afford a ‘tanpura’, has chosen more conventional surroundings for hundreds of disciples whom he has groomed to excel in dhrupad gayaki. | | | Not content with even this, he travels all over the country to teach classical singing. |
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http://www.onlypunjab.com/latest/fullstory-newsID-3270.html
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| | Inside-Out |
| | Our music is for those who come with a passion for it and can uphold its tradition, not contaminate it. | | | I am dedicated to preserving Dhrupad in its pure form. | | | In Mumbai for a felicitation ceremony, does the maestro feel that recognition has come late? |
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http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19990908/ile08079.html
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| | About North Indian Music. |
| | Dhrupad derives from the word dhruv, which literally means fixed, and pada literally verse/text. | | | Tansen, a legendary musician in Akbar's court, is considered to be the father of the current form of classical dhrupad and most classical performers trace their tradition to him. | | | The first raag is usually in dhrupad (alap)-khyal style as described above. |
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http://www.buckinghammusic.com/tall.html
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| | Music Today |
| | Dhrupad and Dhamar gayaki is an age-old tradition in India. | | | Baha-ud-din’s elaborated and serene aalap-s in the ragas in dhrupad ang with intricate and graceful layakari move the audiences worldwide. | | | His father taught him the specialised Dagar Vani dhrupad. |
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http://www.music-today.com/complete.phtml?id=17
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| | Classical vocal hindustani Music - Dhrupad |
| | The texts of dhrupad are concerned with matters of philosophy and religion. | | | The free-floating alap is followed by the dhrupad or bandish (as the fixed section is referred to). | | | The sacred Prabandha music of the twelfth and fourteenth centuries passed on as an oral tradition, and sourced the dhrupad genre. |
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http://www.indiaheritage.com/perform/music/h-v-dr.htm
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| | DAILY BRUIN ONLINE |
| | Because dhrupad is sung in Sanskrit, the average person cannot understand the text, and for this reason, Dagar likes to take time to explain each piece. | | | Dagar's father and uncle, who were known as the Dagar Brothers, did much to promote dhrupad when it was on the verge of being a dead art form half a century ago. | | | Dagar believes dhrupad music appeals to a broad variety of people because of the diverse culture from which it comes. |
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http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/printable.asp?id=25761&date=10/16/2003
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| | The Gundecha Brothers CD Tears on a lotus |
| | Dhrupad is one of the most ancient musical forms in India, whose roots are traced back to the 2000-year-old tradition of chanting hymns from the Vedas. | | | Subjects used as a source for dhrupad poetry include hymns in praise of Hindu and Islamic saints as well as philosophical reflections on music. | | | Although the distinctive characteristics of the Dagar family's renditions of Dhrupad is present in their singing, the Gundecha brothers are also success-fully experimenting on their own. |
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http://www.earthvibemusic.com/cd/indiancd/sense/lotus.html
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| | DHRUPAD 2003 AMELIA CUNI |
| | Its introspective and meditative nature vacillates between rhythmical structures and lively improvisations, and between vocalisation and poetic verse. | | | It is influenced by Nada or 'sound' yoga. | | | Dhrupad song has evolved over the centuries, bridging the gap between court and temple, or secular and sacred, music. |
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http://www.cini.it/english/foundation/07.perf/08.calendar/2003/events/edhrupad2003.htm
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| | Dhrupad |
| | Darbhanga Scool, according to legends was born in 18th century and thus preserved a light and happy style of Dhrupad, especially in the Dhamar. | | | A major emphasis is laid on the rhythmic aspect of singing. | | | Darbhanga tradition is one of the two main living Dhrupad Gharanas. |
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http://www.dhrupad.net/html/gharana.html
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| | Gardens of the Mughal Empire - Resources |
| | At present there are only two major practitioners of the rudra vina: Ustad Asad Ali Khan, and Bahauddin Dagar, son of the late Ustad Zia Moinuddin Dagar, who was himself an important senior master of that instrument. | | | Shubha Sankaran, whose surbahar performance may be heard on several of the Mughal Gardens Web pages, performs in Dhrupad style. | | | Dhrupad was the dominant form of vocal music in North India until the eighteenth century, when it began to be overtaken by the lighter, more florid vocal style known as khayal (literally, imagination). |
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http://www.mughalgardens.org/html/music02.html
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| | Toronto Gharana/Music |
| | The dhrupad texts can be devotional or panegyrics. | | | Chautaal (12 beats)is the most commonly used tala for a dhrupad. | | | dhrupad has been in decline since the 18th century. |
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http://www.pathcom.com/~ericp/genre.html
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| | An Evening of Dhrupad Music |
| | Seattle residents Shantha Benegal and Annie Penta are well-known throughout the Northwest and beyond as performers of the ancient and meditative Dhrupad genre. | | | He has accompanied many leading artists, including the Leela Dhrupad Singers, Jeff Lewis, Nancy Lesh, Brian Silver and Subha Sankaran, Kakali Bandyopadhyay, Afzalur Rahman, Munmun Ahmad, Kumud Savla, and Pauline Oliveros. |
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http://www.pratidhwani.org/events/07feb04/index.htm
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| | Concert Of South Indian Classical Vocal Music Will Be April 23 At UI |
| | The nature of Dhrupad is spiritual, in that its purpose is aradhana, or worship. | | | Dhrupad is believed to be one of the oldest existing forms of Indian classical music. | | | Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha are two of India's leading exponents of the Dhrupad style of music. |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2004/april/040904indian-music.html
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| | The Phat Planet World Music |
| | This is a devotional piece based on an ancient Sanskrit hymn — “Shiva is the beginning, the middle and the end.” The second composition, based in Raga Gunakali, is also in praise of Shiva (it’s worth noting that dhrupad is a Muslim tradition) — urging him to play his dhamaru drum. | | | His tutelage came, as is customary, from within his family and initially (from the age of 6) with his father. | | | The heritage spans at least seven centuries and is primarily associated with a number of families who perform this noble and often devotional music. |
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http://thephatplanet.com/music.ihtml?pid=7766&step=4
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| | POV: Dhrupad - music of the Gods |
| | Origianlly Dhrupad was only sung in the temples and in Sanskrit. | | | Dhrupad is a sandhi (a fusion) of two sanskrit words - Dhruva or the Pole Star, and Pada which is poetry. | | | At that point in time - he tears off the skin of one of his arms and fashions it into a rudraveena - and composes the Samaveda in honour of Shiva. |
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http://www.20six.co.uk/weblogEntry/fvkiz4snl8t8.htm
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| | The Hindu : Other States / Madhya Pradesh News : Dhrupad to get a home in Bhopal |
| | The nature of Dhrupad is spiritual, he said adding that Mian Tansen, who belonged to Madhya Pradesh, was one of the nine jewels closely associated with Akbar. | | | The Gundecha Brothers, Umakant and Ramakant, today announced that the Dhrupad Institute being set up by them here would be the first of its kind in the country devoted to sustaining and promoting the rich heritage of Dhrupad in the Gurukul tradition. | | | The Gundecha Brothers said that ten students would be enrolled at a time and the endeavour would be to turn them into performers. |
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/10/30/stories/2004103007680500.htm
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| | MusicalNirvana - Dagar Bani |
| | His son Ustad Fahimuddin Dagar is a great scholar well versed in theoretical and practical aspects of Dhrupad and lives in Delhi. | | | Dagar Vani (or Bani) is the most well known and the only thriving dhrupad gharana of the 20th century. | | | His two sons became very famous and had a great impact on the dhrupad music of the 20th century. |
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http://www.musicalnirvana.com/gharana/dagar_vani.html
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| | North American Dhrupad Association (NADA) |
| | Dhrupad maestros such as Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar, Ustad Asad Ali Khan, Ritwik Sanyal, F Wasifuddin Dagar, Bahauddin Dagar, Uday Bhawalkar, Gundecha Brothers, Falguni Mitra, Prem Kumar Mallik, and others are members of NADA. | | | NADA is also engaged in a number of other activities to preserve and propagate the Dhrupad tradition. | | | The members seek to fulfill the goals of NADA and to promote Dhrupad music. |
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http://www.raga.com/text/nada.html
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| | Raga Exchange - Music of India - Steven landsberg |
| | In the Dhrupad tradition, the most distinguished performer on the surbahar, in recent years, has been Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan of the Seniya Gharana. | | | Until well into the 20th century, leading sitarists habitually presented the dhrupad style alap on the surbahar, followed by post-dhrupad styles of compositions on the sitar. | | | Surbahar performance has evolved around two distinct traditions: the Dhrupad tradition, which still regards the surbahar as the closest approximation to the Rudra Veena and the post-Dhrupad, sitarist tradition which treats the surbahar as a specialist instrument for the sitar- type alap form. |
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http://www.ragascape.com/Ragascapes/3.html
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| | The Prince of Love: Vocal Art of North India |
| | Shri Amarnathji, the head priest of the Shankat Mochan temple, had the idea to summon all the musicians he knew of to revive the ancient tradition at a festival at Tulsi Ghat. | | | Dhrupad originated in the 15th century in the pastoral landscape of Braj situated between Delhi and Agra, where the blind poet Surdas and his contemporaries had envisioned and re-enacted the childhood of the cowherd god Krishna and his beloved Radha. | | | Unknown to Western musicologists, the art of dhrupad had survived in such remote places as Darbhanga in North Eastern Bihar, close to the Nepalese border and in the temples of Varanasi. |
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http://www.blacksun.com/releases/13238.htm
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| | The DoveSong Foundation, Inc. -- Dhrupad |
| | After the evening worship of the idols they sing in a group, purely based on rag and purely dhrupad with seven parts. | | | But if you go to Mathura-Brindaban, they have got seven parts, and you cannot deny they are the originals. | | | If you really want to hear that, you've got to go there to the temple. |
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http://www.dovesong.com/positive_music/archives/world/India_Dhrupad2.asp
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| | Since the demise of his uncle Ustad N. Zahiruddin Dagar in 1994, Wasif has been carrying on the tradition of Dagarvani solo. | | | His rendition of dhrupad is a unique blend of his uncle’s training, his father’s quality of voice and temperament, and his in-depth knowledge of dhrupad tradition. | | | Wasif also had the good fortune of the tutelage of his grand uncle Ustad Rahimuddin Khan Dagar, a dhrupad exponent and his grandfather’s younger brother. |
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http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/spicmacay/wasif.htm
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| | Singing Between Two Worlds, Dhrupad and Dagars, a film by Ian R. Hardy |
| | This method is known as the guru shishya parampara. | | | Through it, the Dagar brothers devote their lives to learning dhrupad vocal music, and strive to take their place among the twentieth generation of their family to have mastered this tradition. | | | This is a warm portrait of one of the most famous musical families of India, in which the cherished tradition of dhrupad vocal music is passed on from father to son. |
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http://www.geocities.com/ianrhardydirector/singingbetween2worlds.html
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| | Dhrupadduo.com |
| | The Dhrupad Mela - Benaras, The Tansen Samaroh - Gwalior, the Swar Sadhna annual programme - Mumbai and various cities of India too. | | | But presented today is a slightly different form in that it is a female - male Jugalbandi, the first ever in the history of Dhrupad. | | | Female artists in dhrupad are not too many and Sulbha has achieved a spot of her own, along with Manoj they combine to form a pair quite unique, they specialize in the correct rendering of Dhrupad in the "Dagarbani Style" with enough emphasis on Alap and Jod and a systematic 'Badhat' (improvisation) of the raga. |
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http://www.dhrupadduo.com
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| | MusicalNirvana - Darshan by Gundecha Brothers |
| | (Should be 12-13th century, see Birth of Dhrupad) | | | Dhrupad is the oldest form of Hindustani music, went into decline after the emergence of Khayal in 19th century. | | | Also, in the introductory part, dhrupad is dated to 11th century, which is not correct. |
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http://www.musicalnirvana.com/specials/gundecha_brothers_026.html
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| | Dhrupad : North Indian classical music genre |
| | There are many different Dhrupad schools in India : | | | What is Dhrupad : Dhrupad and dhamar belong to the North Indian classical tradition of Hindu religious music, and take very sophisticated musical and poetical forms. | | | A favourite of the Great Moghols, this music has spread all over North India from the 15th to the 17th century.At first mainly vocal, dhrupad can also be played on string instruments which allow an important sustain of the note (Been, Rudraveena). |
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http://www.makar-records.com/siteus/dhrupad.html
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| | Gundecha Brothers |
| | dhrupad is safe and Dagarvani (the legacy of their gurus, the Dagar brothers) is all set to enter the 21st century | | | Akhilesh has an M.A. in Vocal Music from Khairagarh University, where he is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in dhrupad's Dagarvani. | | | Over the last several years, the brothers' fame and popularity have spread steadily both in India and abroad. |
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http://www.spicmacay.org/gundechas.htm
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| | Pandit Shivshankar Mukherjee - Vocal Dhrupad - Gohar vani |
| | Educated in the traditional way (Guru Shishya parampara), he has received from his father, Anadi Bushan Mukherjee, a complete training in Dhrupad and Dhamar. | | | Master of the Goharvani style of Dhrupad, Pandit Shivshankar Mukherjee is the heir of a very old and rare tradition : the Senya gharana Dhrupad in Bengal. | | | Their family masters all the fours vanis of dhrupad singing but stays close to the Gohar vani. |
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http://makar-records.com/siteus/41page.html
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| | Dhrupad - Documentary Films |
| | A Close Intimate View of the World of a Dhrupad Maestro and his Disciple | | | is a documentary film on Dhrupad and the guru shishya system of learning in which knowledge is imparted | | | The film focuses on the complex grammar, aesthetics and spiritual foundations of Dhrupad, |
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http://www.dhrupad-film.de
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| | Rediff On The NeT: Dhrupad singer Asghari Bai is in dire straits |
| | Khan added that Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, classical vocalist Shoba Gurtu and santoor star Shiv Kumar Sharma will also be honoured on the occasion. | | | The honour of being the only woman dhrupad singer in the country. | | | In desperation, dhrupad legend Asghari Bai wants to return her Padma Shri |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/jan/18bai.htm
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| | Apart from Gundecha brothers, Dagars and a few more, tell me who credible practitioners are still practising Dhrupad??? | | | So I would be cautious in stating that there are no practitioners of this kind of music. | | | All students of Sitar, Surbahar and Been Dhrupad is one of the most ancient existing forms of classical music in India, and its vocal technique is the basis of North Indian classical music. |
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http://www.indoclassical.com/indo/asp/dboard.asp
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| | India: The Art of Dagarvani Dhrupad arminhammer.com |
| | In the Mirror of the Sky only $14.99 | | | Used India: The Art of Dagarvani Dhrupad are in stock for only $11.88. | | | This product was released to the public on 25 August, 1994. |
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http://arminhammer.com/amazon/asin.B00007KFQ9.Music_India_The_Art_of_Dagarvani_Dhrupad.html
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| | Girish Karia - Dhrupad Vocal Natdwara |
| | Girish Karia ne chante que pour un seul auditeur, l’idole du temple, Shri Nathji. | | | Dès son enfance il a appris l’immense patrimoine poétique et musical du Haveli Dhrupad auprès de son maître Kanhaia Lal Munshi. | | | Le Haveli Dhrupad est chanté dans des temples krishnaïtes particuliers, construits en forme de palais. |
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http://makar-records.com/sitefrench/28pagef.html
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| | Gardens of the Mughal Empire - Resources |
| | A useful general Web site on Dhrupad, with information on Ustad Asad Ali Khan (Ustad is the Urdu honorific title given to distinguished Muslim musicians), as well as the leading Dhrupad vocalists: | | | Information on Dhrupad and related aspects of the music of the Mughal era may be found using the advanced features of such Web search engines as www.google.com and entering the appropriate words or names or combination thereof. | | | For more information on the performers on this Mughal Gardens Web site, including photographs, go to: www.surbahar.com, which in future will include additional information on the Dhrupad tradition, updated discographies, information on Dhrupad performances, and further links to relevant Websites. |
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http://www.mughalgardens.org/html/music13.html
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| | Gardens of the Mughal Empire - Resources |
| | Bahauddin Dagar: The Tradition of Dhrupad on Rudravina 2. | | | Uday Bhawalkar: The Lyrical Tradition of Dhrupad 6. | | | Uday Bhawalkar: The Lyrical Tradition of Dhrupad 2. |
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| | An Introduction to Indian classical music |
| | Dhrupad, the 15th century temple and court genre. | | | Those genres are focusing more on a poetical form : Dhrupad, on strangely complex verse with no rime, Qawwali, on Persian couplet versification etc. | | | The patronage of royal families (India has been a set of feudal states for all its history before 1948) has given those gharanas the "peace of mind" necessary to create, preserve and nourish an incredible amount of genres. |
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http://www.makar-records.com/siteus/intro01.html
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| | Freight and Salvage: Uday Bhawalkar w/ Manik Munde |
| | Dhrupad, with roots linked to the chanting of Vedic scriptures, is a pure, highly sophisticated form that is meant to induce feelings of peace and contemplation in its listeners. | | | In his performances of the technically challenging, deeply spiritual devotional songs known as dhrupad, Uday follows in the glorious tradition of musicians like Zia Mohiuddin Dagar and Zia Fariduddin Dagar, the foremost contemporary proponents of this ancient form of classical North Indian music. | | | Uday Bhawalkar is one of India's most talented dhrupad singers, acclaimed by the Western public as well as by Indian classical music connoisseurs. |
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http://www.thefreight.org/2005/april/info_08.html
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