Caesurae Music Workshops
Wed, 10 Oct
|Maulana Azad National Urdu University
The workshop focuses on the voice training methods of Dhrupad which are based on practices derived from yoga and the sāma vedic mantra chanting tradition. The teaching starts with the fundamental practice of the ākār – the long vowel ā and its use in Dhrupad for developing the voice.
Time & Location
10 Oct 2018, 9:00 am – 11 Oct 2018, 9:00 pm
Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Urdu University Road, Near LNT Towers, Telecom Nagar, Gachibowli, Weaker Section Colony, Khajaguda, Manikonda, Hyderabad, Telangana 500032, India
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About the event
The workshop focuses on the voice training methods of dhrupad which are based on practices derived from yoga and the sāma vedic mantra chanting tradition.
The teaching starts with the fundamental practice of the ākār – the long vowel ā and its use in dhrupad for developing the voice and goes on to the concept of variation of voice resonance through the use of various positions and energy channels in the body, the use of gestures of the hand or mudrās in controlling sound, different aspects of vowel and consonant pronunciation in dhrupad, the use of the breath and silent internal processes through changes of position.
It introduces the tonal system of dhrupad with the concepts of grāma and mūrcchanā - scales made up of 22 śrutis or microtones, which are generated by the iterative process of shifting the starting point or origin within a scale and also shows how…