Linköping University Postprint Music Under Development
Linköping University Postprint Music under development: children’s songs, artists, and the (pancayat) state Ingemar Grandin Original publication: Ingemar Grandin, Music under development: children’s songs, artists, and the (pancayat) state, 2005, Studies in Nepali History and Society, (10), 2, 255–293. Copyright: Nepal Studies Group, http://www.asianstudies.emory.edu/sinhas/ Postprint available free at: Linköping University E-Press: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-10571 Music under development: children’s songs, artists, and the (pancayat) state Ingemar Grandin, Linköpings universitet, Sweden Published in Studies in Nepali History and Society vol 10 no 2, 2005, pp. 255–93 (actual year of publishing 2007) Submitted on October 6, 2005 Revised version submitted on December 15, 2005 Final version submitted on February 16, 2006. Music under development: children’s songs, artists, and the (pancayat) state Ingemar Grandin, Linköpings universitet, Sweden In September 1993, Gopal Yonjan (an important personality in the field of Nepali music) released a book-plus-cassette set with songs for children. The cover of the book shows children in dresses typical of different Nepali regions, and these children hold up musical symbols from both East and West: the note-syllables of sa, re, ga, ma, and pa together with a treble clef and an eighth note. On top of this, the name of the book, Git Manjari, is inscribed into the five lines of Western staff notation. In the book – beside the lyrics and saragam notation of the songs – there are instructive comments. These comments are obviously there to educate the music teacher as much as the students.
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