There are two ways of appreciating any music – cerebral and emotional, or from the mind and the heart. What primarily differentiates classical music from popular music? Both Church and Secular music influenced each other, while evolving and adapting to man’s ideological progress in history. For example, Church music includes Gregorian Chants, Carols, Mass, and Requiems, while Secular music includes sonatas, concertos, symphonies, and opera. Throughout the history of Western classical music, there have been two strands of evolution, usually distinguishable from each other, which evolved in parallel – Church music and Secular music. The point is to be contextually aware of what is meant by “Classical” when you’re reading or conversing with others. We shall delve into these different “periods” in subsequent posts. To make matters more confusing, there is a specific period in history referred to as the “Classical Period”, which differentiates the style of music in that era from other eras preceding and succeeding it. Western classical is just one among many different traditions of classical music, so when we’re discussing Western classical music, we’re specifically discussing European classical music. It encompasses a vast range of music styles over a period of 800 years. The term “Classical music” originates from the Latin classicus, meaning first class, or for the Romans, artistry of the highest order. One way to do this is to shed light upon its contrasts with Indian classical music. For others, it is what snobbish ‘intellectual’ artsy folks indulge in pretentiously. We will try to go beyond these myopic perspectives and try to get a glimpse of what is great, enlightening, and thoroughly enjoyable about Western classical music. The old people of Rooabandha Township used to come there.For some, Western classical music is what plays in the background in elevators, reception rooms, and lounges. Ritu used to sing Pandvani in front of her house in the evening. When Ritu was five, her father gave her a tambura toy to play with. In 1991, the Tribal Folk Arts Council, Bhopal, sent her to Germany and England. Since then she has been going abroad constantly. At the age of just ten, Ritu achieved the distinction that rare artists receive by performing in Japan. Ritu Verma gave her first show on a foreign platform in August 1989. She was born on 10 June, 1979, in Rooabandha. There was also a performance of Pandavani by Ritu Verma. The major folk dances of Nagaland include Modse, Agurshikukula, Butterfly Dance, Aaluyattu, Sadal Kekai, Changai Dance, Kuki Dance, Leshalaptu, Khamba Lim, Mayur Dance, Monyoasho, Rengma, Seecha and Kukui Kucho, Shankai and Moyashai, etc. Nagaland has multiple tribes, each having their own uniqueness, dance forms, cultures, language and more. The evening witnessed a folk performance from Nagaland.
Pande’s bilingual book documents that canorous Pahadi is the most popular raaga used in Hindi film songs, though it is contested by puritans for not being a raga and just a structure of notes. Pande’s postings to Bareilly, Vadodara and Kolkata as a railway official helped. To learn more about this topic he began collecting 78rpm records, followed by tapes in the ’80s and ’90s. He also had sessions with instrumentalists to figure out ragas by putting notations in place and then analysing them. They appeared in the ’50s and ’60s,” says Pande, who met many composers during his research. You won’t see a lot of sweet-sounding ragas such as Bhairavi and Pahadi. “In the ’30s and ’40s, there was extensive use of Raag Kafi and Khamaj as these correspond to serious moods of mythological films. He educated the audience about the use of ragas in Indian cinema, which kept changing with films and composers. He has written a number of books on poetry, Hindi literature and Hindi film music including the “Hindi Cine Raag Encyclopedia” in which 174 Raagas in over 17000 songs have been identified from over 5700 films between 19. He is also a poet, an author and a musicologist. Pandey is a retired Railway Board Member and has served in a number of key positions in the government. The audience participated with enthusiasm.
It was an interactive Audio – Video presentation with live singing. Also, at the ONGC Officers’ Club, an interesting presentation was made by Musicologist KL Pandey on ‘The Journey of Hindi Film Music from 1931 to 2019 with a Classical Viewpoint’. Whizzkid International School students from Haridwar came and participated in the workshop that involved bangle making, kite making, tie and dye, chocolate making, stone art, tribal tattoo making, etc. DEHRADUN, 24 Oct: Craft Workshops were held with Master Craftsmen at the Virasat Fest, here, today.