[INDOLOGY] Shloka Singing Styles / Tunes

Joanna Jurewicz j.jurewicz at uw.edu.pl
Tue Apr 14 10:41:32 UTC 2020


I have the same problem.

best,

Joanna Jurewicz

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Katedra Azji Południowej /Chair of South Asia

Wydział Orientalistyczny / Faculty of Oriental Studies

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pon., 13 kwi 2020 o 23:07 Valerie Roebuck via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> napisał(a):

> Dear Mārcis
>
> I can see the slides in Dropbox but can’t find a way to play the music
> examples.
>
> Valerie J Roebuck
> Manchester UK
>
> > On 13 Apr 2020, at 07:25, Mārcis Gasūns via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> >
> > Reposting a post from उषाराणी सङ्का
> >
> > Hariom.
> > नमस्ते to all the parishad scholars.
> > Happy to write after long time regarding some interesting work.
> > I would like to share an experience and seek help.
> > I was teaching some students some shlokas and one of them suddenly asked
> - "How many shloka singing styles are there?"
> > I thought for a little while, and said- Many! Some belong to North
> India, some South, some to Maharashtra, some traditional, some created by
> films and singers. Then the organizer of those lesson-sessions requested me
> to prepare something in detail to share with the students.
> > Then with the help of youtube, and other sources, I prepared this PPT (
> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/mbi5a4qluidn7kw/ShlokaSingingStyles.pptx?dl=0).
> Right now just for Shloka meter- that is popular Anushtup, not any other
> vrtta.. (I tried to take only one shloka and sing, but it was difficult;
> hence samples are a little varying.) And one more limitation is that I
> belong to South India, so lot of North is missed! And just now it struck-
> are there any NRI tunes/videshi tunes?
> >
> > Thanks to the questioner! His question opened doors into new area of
> thinking for me. I realized while working on this, that I am totally
> unaware of tunes which are Bengali, Oriya, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Himachal
> Pradesh etc. and many more sources might be there. I also wrote a small
> write-up with my limited knowledge- which I just copy pasted below. Much
> can be added to make it complete. Eg. how to people get to some tune? How
> do they originate? Actually get propagated?
> > One thing I wanted to keep away for classical music.. exclude the Ragas.
> I just wanted tunes that mark something, and flew into the people at
> large.. not like someone sang somewhere and it remained there.
> >
> > Now the help that I seek from this learned parishad is- please provide
> me audio samples from missing places. (I mean that not included in the
> audios in the PPT.) Let me have any more information upon this subject, and
> please let me know if such an endeavour has been made before by anyone-
> please provide the links and names and if possible, the work also. Further
> light on classification could also help. Any aspect of this area would be
> helpful in increasing my knowledge.
> >
> > This is purely out of interest.. nothing academic. :)
> >
> > Tunes are sometimes generated by some popular film makers and they get
> to the people so much that we start to believe that this must be
> traditional tune. Some musicians also introduce some good tunes for shlokas.
> >             Tunes can be divided into – 1. Traditional tunes 2. Tunes
> developed by individuals. Then one more classification is like- 1. For
> recitation 2. For chanting. Most of the times the classical music element
> involved in shlokas, long drawn musical notes,  is only for beautification
> and mostly avoided by general people.
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