Rivers of Sacred Sound; Chant

ISBN-13: 9781788744393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 176 str.

Solveig McIntosh

Opis

The text of this book, preceded by an introduction, is presented in seven chapters and covers a period of approximately five thousand years. In an aural culture what was the role of gesture and what is its role now? There are many doors to open in pursuing these and other questions. This book opens some of them.

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Contents

List of Figures vii

List of Musical Examples ix

Preface xiii

Notation and Script xvii

Acknowledgements xix

Introduction 1

chapter 1

Historical Background 5

chapter 2

Language 17

chapter 3

Scale and Mode 49

chapter 4

Recitation, Psalmody and Silence 89

chapter 5

Alan4kaaras and Neumes 101

chapter 6

Rhythm in Chant 129

vi

chapter 7

The Hand: Mudraas and Cheironomy 137

Epilogue 153

Glossary 155

Bibliography 163

Index 169

O autorze

SOLVEIG MCINTOSH is a musician and research scholar in the musical traditions

of Northern India. She qualified as a teacher in the 1970s and completed her

Doctoral studies in 1993. She has given talks in Britain, Holland, New Zealand

and India and has contributed articles to various books and journals. As well

as publishing a book, Hidden Faces of Ancient Indian Song, she has produced a

DVD, Ancient Indian Song, and three CDs, Traditional Vedic Invocations, Hymns

of the Vedas and Sanskrit Songs to the Divine. She has given workshops both in

Britain and abroad.