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Delhi University-Notes Of Discord

30th Nov 1982, India Today, ReportageBy Chaitanya KalbagJuly 25, 2024Leave a comment

Delhi University is one of the few in the country to possess a fullĀ­-fledged faculty of music. But for years now, the Music Department has been rocked by a clash between the shastrakars (grammarians) and the kalavidhs (performers). At the root of the controversy lies the dilemma of whether university teachers of music ought to…

Music: Mathematics of Ragas

15th Feb 1982, India Today, ReportageBy Chaitanya KalbagJuly 12, 2024Leave a comment

When Frenchman Bernard Bel and American Jim Arnold met by chance in a Delhi hotel in September 1979, it turned out to be a momentous occasion for Indian music. In the two years since, Bel and Arnold have together embarked on an ambitious research of Hindustani classical music’s vast oral tradition along mathematical lines. Never…

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