Exploration in Indian Music: An Overview

This book is a compilation of the articles related to research on Indian Classical music. The Prime aim of the Work is to pay homage to our legendary musician and Musicologist Late Alain Danielou and provide adequate information about his work. It contains '36' research papers from different field of Indian Classical Music. An elaborated article on Alain Danielou needed a lot of research, as not much information on his work was easily available. The reader may find unique information of Musicologists, forms of Indian Classical music, Scientific aspect of Indian music, Music education, Music therapy, Music research, traditions, Music in Puranas and Rag Dhyan etc.

These edited articles have something new to add in the dimentions of traditional Indian Classical Music. This edition will be very useful for researchers, Music lovers, teachers and students of Music and worth as a reference book.

Dr. Lovely Sharma is a Sitarist and Musicologist of International repute. She has been recipient of Barsari and National scholarship. After receiv ing Gold medal in M.A. music she has never looked back. She did her Ph.D. degree from M.S. University, Baroda. Dr. Sharma joined music department of D.E.I. University as a lecturer in 1987.

Due to her global recognition, she has been invited at various international fora as a music therapist (Australia in 2005, Sweden in 2006). She has been hon ored as a Sitarist by Iran Art Academy, Iran. She was also invited for an inter national conference held in Malaysia as Music Educationist as well as Sitarist.

Dr. Sharma has presented nearly 35 research papers and has published around 30 research papers in various national and international music journals and books.

Her unique project work entitled "Effect of Music on prisoners" throws light on her character to accept challenges and to contribute to social welfare.

She was also awarded best teacher's award in 1999 in Delhi and Kalabhushan award in 2004 by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra. Her book on 'Rajastani lok geeton ki shastriyata' was published in 2005.

She is an external expert of around 30 Indian universities apart from UGC and RPSC, Rajasthan.

The essays appearing here are collected and edited from the proceedings of an International conference (RCIM 2007) at Agra organised by Kriti Kala Sansthan to celebrate the birth centenary of Late Alain Danielou (Annexure-2).

The theme of the conference was 'Research and its consequences on Indian Music' and the objective of the conference had been to encourage discussion in the field of music to provide new ideas and directions in the research in music. In this conference, a great amount of enthasiasm was noticed in the Scholars, faculty members and experts. This eveident from the numbers of research papers (Seventy) which were submitted for this conference and the screening committee had a toughtime in scrutinizing them. In all 55 papers were selected for presentation. However in the present volume the reder will find only 34 research papers. Many constrains are responsible for this, the main being finencial. Then is the idea behind the publication of these papers in a book form. But due to the huge expenditure on the shoulder of the organizing committee, we have forced to restrict the number of published paper to 34 only. We will try our best to publish the remaining papers in the future edition of this book.

It is hoped that this edition will, in its own modest way, contribute towards a greater understanding of research in music and perhaps even lead to attempt at reviving some of the unknown treaures of Indian Music.

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