!i ISSN. 0970-3101 l o u n t a l tr f W l }tjHustc Acafremg Jfla&ras Devoted to the Advancement of the Science and Art of Music Vol. 83 2012 W ^ t# i ■q^W : 'UsT UlUPd W frfgrfiT ^fTT^II " / not in Vaikunta, nor in the hearts of Yogins, not in the Sun; (but) where my Bhaktas sing, there be I, Narada !" Narada Bhakti Sutra EDITOR Pappu Venugopala Rao THE MUSIC ACADEMY MADRAS New No. 168 (Old No. 306), T.T.K. Road, Chennai 600 014. Email [email protected] Website www.musicacademymadras.in Copyright © The Music Academy Madras . [□ December 2012 Statement about ownership and other particulars about newspaper "JOURNAL OF THE MUSIC ACADEMY MADRAS" to be published in the first issue every year after the last day of February Form IV (See Rule 8) 1. Place of Publication - New No. 168, T.T.K. Road Chennai 600 014 2. Periodicity of its publication Annual J 1 3. Printer's Name Mr. N. 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Our Contributors 7 2. Editor’s Note 11 Qj In 3. 85th Annual Conference & Concerts - December 2011 Welcome Address by Sri. N. Murali, President 13 EDITORIAL BOARD Inaugural address by Sri. S.R. Nathan 20 Dr. Pappu Venugopala Rao (Editor) Speech of Sri. Trichy Sankaran 22 Sri. N. Murali, President (Ex. Officio) Welcome address by Sri. N. Murali, President at the Sadas 28 Dr. Malathi Rangaswami Speech by Sri. Y.V. Reddy 31 Dr. Chithra Madhavan Awardees 2011 34 Dr. S.A.K. Durga Note on Dance Festival 41 Dr. N. Ramanathan 4. Proceedings of the Conference 2011 42 Sri. V. Sriram 5. Sankaradas Svamigalin padalgalil candangal - Arimalam Padmanabhan 59 Mrs. Sujatha Vijayaraghavan 6. Tracing the History of Sanglta in Kashmir - Advaitavadini Kaul 73 7. Persian and urdu sources for music - Najma Ahmed 88 8. From Music in Stone to Music in Motion - Suvamalata Rao 97 9. Raga clusters in Hindustani music - Deepak Raja 112 10. The musical significance of BargTt in the context of Indian raga sanglta - 119 Pabitrapran Goswami 11. Role of Gamaka-s - Sumitra Vasudev 125 16. Book Reviews and New Arrivals 131 17. Obituary 140 5 THE MUSIC ACADEMY • JOURNAL 2012 • VOLUME 83 □J OUR CONTRIBUTORS ADVAITAVADINI KAUL Dr. Advaitavadini Kaul is Chief Editor and Head of the Publication Unit in the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi. Here, she has about fifty publication projects to her credit. These publication projects accomplished in co­ ordination with eminent scholars of international fame are mainly related to the three fundamental publication series of IGNCA viz. on (i) Indian Key Concepts (Kalatattvakosa) (ii) Fundamental texts on Arts (Kalamulasastra) and (iii) Analytical and Interpretative writings on Art (Kalasamalocana Series). She has gained the experience of understanding Indian Culture and Arts at the level of interrelation and interdisciplinary approach. Her personal research is on cultural traditions and arts of Kashmir. An alumnus of the Panjab University, Chandigarh (MA Sanskrit) and the University of Kashmir (M.Phil & Ph.D in Buddhist Studies), her book: Buddhist Savants of Kashmir their Contribution Abroad has been well received by the international community of scholars. She has also three edited volumes to her credit. Amongst these is the most prestigious volume of the Kalatattvakosa (Vol. IV) on Manifestation of Nature: Srsti Vistara. She has contributed about forty research papers/articles on various topics, many of which were presented by her at National and International Seminars in India and Abroad. DEEPAK RAJA Mr. Deepak Raja (Bom 1948) has studied Hindustani music (Sitar and vocal music) for over 50 years. His pursuit of music has been guided by eminent musicians: Shri PB Dev Burman (a disciple of the legendary sitarist, Ustad Enayet Khan), Pandit Arvind Parikh (a disciple of the sitar maestro, Ustad Vilayat Khan), and Vidushi Dhondutai Kulkami (a disciple of the legendary vocalist, Kesarbai Kerkar). He is an alumnus of Delhi University, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and the Watford College of Technology in England. He has published two well-regarded books on Hindustani music, and edited an annual volume for the Indian Musicological Society. He has been associated with the academic / publishing activities of the ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Calcutta, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Delhi, and Sruti magazine, Chennai. In 2009, he was awarded a two-year Senior Research Fellowship of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. ^1____________________ _________ ________________ __________ r« 7 THE MUSIC ACADEMY • JOURNAL 2012 • VOLUME 83 THE MUSIC ACADEMY • JOURNAL 2012 • VOLUME 83 q] Ip nj Ip NAJMA AHMED Sumithra has a deep passion for literature, especially Samskritam and Tamil. With a keen interest in research Sumithra has presented articles in seminars and was also involved in Prof. (Dr.) Najma Perveen Ahmad, former Dean and Head of the Department of Music projects related to music research and translation of texts, including the SSP translation of (Faculty of Music and Fine Arts), University of Delhi, is a scholar, teacher and a performing The Music Academy. artist of Hindustani Classical (Vocal) music. She has been Senior Professor at the Faculty of Music & Fine Arts, University of Delhi, fully dedicated to teaching, research and SUVARNALATA RAO institutional development. During her long association with the Faculty, she has been A performing musician of North Indian classical music (sitar) and a musicologist working deeply involved in teaching, research, and development of the Department. in the area of computational musicology and organology, Suvamalata Rao’s main area She belongs to the Delhi Gharana and has obtained her vocal music training (Taleem) from of interest is the analysis of North Indian vocal music with an objective to study certain the renowned vocalist Ustad Naseer Ahmad Khan of the Delhi Gharana. aspects of raga like intonation and melodic movement. Her research on acoustical perspective to the esthetical concept relating to the raga and rasa and post-doctoral work About thirty five doctoral research scholars and more than thirty M. Phil, students have in the area of organology involving issues relating to making of Indian instruments are completed their research work and have been awarded the Ph.D. and M. Phil, degrees great contributions to the field. under her supervision. She is a guest Professor and researcher at the Rotterdam Conservatory (CODARTS) & At present she is UGC Emeritus Fellow at the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, University University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands since 1995. of Delhi. PABITRAPRAN GOSWAMI Dr. Pabitrapran Goswami, Principal, Jorhat College, Jorhat, Assam, is a popular Bargit singer. He did Ph.D. from D.U. on Bargit: a Study of its Literature and System of Music. A teacher, performer and researcher, has published books like: Bargit: a Musicological Exploration and book in Assami dealing with an elaborate work of notation of ten ragas of Bargit in Assamese along with relevant theoretical discussions. SUMITHRA VASUDEV Sumithra Vasudev is known for her classism, melody and adherence to tradition. Trained under Sangita Kalanidhi Smt. R. Vedavalli for over two decades, she has performed in many of the music festivals like Bharat Sangeet Utsav, Hindu’s November Fest, The December Music Season and the Cleveland Tyagaraja Aradhana. This year Cleveland Aradhana has honored her with a Title: Sangeeta Kala Rathna. Sumithra received the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar from The Sangeet Natak Akademi in 2008, ‘Yuva Kala Bharati’ and ‘Nada Oli’ *1 i f 8 9 EDITOR'S NOTE n behalf of the editorial board, the President of the Music Academy Sri. N. Murali Oand on my own behalf, I welcome the readers to the Music Academy Journal 2012. There have been enquiries from scholars across the globe about the earlier issues of the journal. We are happy to inform our readers that we have uploaded journal from 1929 to 2002 to our website www.musicacademymadras.in.