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ISSN. 0970-3101 of %\\zJitustc Acahemg JHa&ras Devoted to the Advancement of the Science and Art of Music Vol. 84 2013 m TTTUfnT m fasrfh ^TT^II "I dwell 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 THE MUSIC ACADEMY • JOURNAL 2013 • VOLUME 84 THE MUSIC ACADEMY • JOURNAL 2013 • VOLUME 84 Copyright © The Music Academy Madras d In December 2013 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 3 * 2. Periodicity of its publication Annual 3. Printer's Name Mr. N. 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Editor : Pappu Venugopala Rao. 2 3 THE MUSIC ACADEMY • JOURNAL 2013 • VOLUME 84 THE MUSIC ACADEMY • JOURNAL 2013 • VOLUME 84 CONTENTS 1. Our Contributors 7 2. Editor’s Note 11 3. 86th Annual Conference & Concerts - December 2012 Welcome Address by Sri N.Murali, President 13 3 s Inaugural Address by Selvi J. Jayalalitha, 18 Hon’ble Chief Minister of Tamilnadu EDITORIAL BOARD Speech of Sri Trichur Ramachandran 24 Dr. Pappu Venugopala Rao (Editor) Welcome Address by Sri NMurali, President at the Sadas 27 Sri. N. Murali, President (Ex. Officio) Speech by Justice V. Ramasubramanian 30 Dr. Malathi Rangaswami Awardees 2013 35 Dr. Chithra Madhavan Note on Dance Festival 43 Dr. S.A.K. Durga 4. Proceedings of the Conference 2012 44 Dr. N. Ramanathan 5. King Serfoji II of Thanjavur and European Music 57 - Professor Indira Viswanathan Peterson Sri. V. Sri ram 6. Computer Synthesis of Carnatic Music and Automatic Gamaka Generation 72 Mrs. Sujatha Vij ayaraghavan - M. Subramanian 7. Tradition and Transcendence: Kathakali through the centuries 82 jF - V. Kaladharan 8. Kohala through the eyes of Abhinavagupta - Dr. Padma Sugavanam 91 9. Importance of StObhas in Sama Veda - Dr. Subrato Roy 100 10. Past performing practices of the Nayak period, a vestibule to today’s 108 Bharatanatyam - Research & Reconstruction - Dr. Swamamalya Ganesh 11. Compositional models and aesthetic experience in Dhruvapada 119 - Sumitra Ranganathan 12. Book Reviews and New Arrivals 142 13. Obituary 149 4 5 THE MUSIC ACADEMY • JOURNAL 2013 • VOLUME 84 - OUR CONTRIBUTORS INDIRA VISWANATHAN PETERSON Indira Viswanathan Peterson is a David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts. A Tamil-speaker by heritage, Indiraji grew up in Mumbai studying several Indian and foreign languages, including Sanskrit, Marathi, German and Russian. She has MA and Ph,D. degrees in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University. She specializes in Indian literature in Sanskrit and Tamil, Hinduism, South Indian cultural history, European-Asian culture and South Indian classical music. Indiraji has held a number of research fellowships, including fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The American Institute for Indian Studies, The Social Science Research Council, the German Government’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation. Indiraji’s publications include: Poems to Shiva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints (Princeton, 1989) and Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskrit Court Epic: The Kiratarjunlya of Bharavi (Albany, 2003), and the first complete translation of the Sanskrit epic Kirataijunlyam into English, forthcoming in the Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press. M. SUBRAMANIAN Sri M.Subramanian, M.Sc. is a retired Postmaster General. He learnt Veena from Dr. S. Ramanathan, Sri A.Muthiah and Trivandrum Sri R. Venkataraman. Subramanian has developed software for Carnatic Music including a program for playing Carnatic music from ‘sa ri ga ma..’ notation with gamakam. He is an associate member of the Computer Society of India. He has also developed syllabus and notes for Computer music. Sri Subramanian has done research on gamakams and published 4 papers in the journal of the Sangeet Natak Academy. Subramanian has presented a paper in the Second Computer Music Workshop held at Istanbul (12th and 13th July, 2012) on automatic gamakam generation. V. KALADHARAN V. Kaladharan, a Post-graduate in Economics (Under Kerala University), worked as Research Assistant in a socio-economic research project of the University of Amsterdam ^ 7 THE MUSIC ACADEMY • JOURNAL 2013 • VOLUME 84 THE MUSIC ACADEMY • JOURNAL 2013 • VOLUME 84 a T Lp 3* " t for almost two years before joining the Publicity Wing of Kerala Kalamandalam in 1982. (of Puri) Gwalior Gharana for 5 years, Late Dinkarji Jadhav (of Mumbai) Jaipur Gharana He has been in charge of the international students at Kalamandalam besides serving as for 5 years, Late Pdt Bhaskarbua Joshi (Pune) Gwalior Gharana for 10 years, Ustad Editor of its Newsletter and forthcoming Research Journal. Kaladharan has been noted Sayeeduddin Dagar (Pune) [Dagarvani] for 10 years. He has learnt Sama Gana under for his mediations between the western students of dance, theatre and music and the C. Ramachandran, Pune [Kauthuma Sakha, Kumbakonam Paddhati] and is currently traditionally trained Gurus at Kalamandalam. He has extensively toured many countries training in Sama Gana under C. Shankaran, Pune [Kauthuma Sakha, Kumbakonam in Asia, Europe and the USA for lectures on the history, aesthetics and contemporary Paddhati] concerns of Kerala’s traditional performing arts. Dr. Subrato is currently a SAARC Fellow for Diminishing cultures of South Asia, Kaladharan has presented scores of papers on the classical performing arts in the Post-doctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Sanskrit, University of Pune national and international seminars held in India and abroad over the last two decades. working on Sama Veda (March 2012 - April 2014). He is part of the visiting faculty at Anthologies published by the well-known publishers in India have included articles Film & Television Institute of India [music in film], WLCI [allied arts, journalism], MIT, penned by Kaladharan. Published a book on performing arts and edited a bilingual ISB & M and University of Pune, Ranade Institute [Journalism]. He has given various anthology on the top-ranking artists in traditional arts. He has anchored programs in lecture demonstrations in the University of Pune, Garware Institute of Journalism, on the television channel, Soorya, on performing arts continuously for two years. He is Indian culture and music etc. a regular invitee for talks by the All India Radio. Kaladharan was Deputy Registrar at Kerala Kalamandalam till recently. As a bilingual writer, art-critic and cultural Dr. SWARNAMALYA GANESH commentator, Kaladharan’s articles in the leading newspapers, journals and magazines Dr. Swamamalya Ganesh is a well-known Bharatanatyam dancer and a dance have won critical acclaim from artists, aesthetes, intellectuals and academicians. history scholar, as well as a choreographer, musician, teacher, Indologist and a popular media person. She is trained in Bharatanatyam under Guru KJ. Sarasa, later under Dr. PADMA SUGAVANAM the Tiruvazaputhur sisters as well as Dr.Padma Subrahmanyam (Karanas). Dr. Ganesh, A disciple of ‘SANGITA KALA ACHARYA’ Smt. SEETHA RAJAN, whose holds an MA in Bharatanatyam and a Ph. D in Dance History from the University of rigorous mentoring for about two decades enabled Dr. Padma Sugavanam to gradually Madras. Her knowledge of Tamil and Grantha epigraphy facilitates her archaeological evolve into a worthy and knowledgeable Musician (A Grade - AIR), Scholar and a fine projects on dance. Teacher. She has received a number of prestigious prizes and awards. A proud hat-trick She is the Director of Ranga Mandira Trust and School of Performing Arts, also came her way. Initially awarded the CCRT Scholarship, and later, the Scholarship and has devised a unique performing arts syllabus.