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my articles in The Times of India May 2010

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Lecture Demonstration on Empirical approaches to performance of raga

15th May 2010
Invitation

Vidnyan Bharati Pune takes pleasure in inviting you for a lecture demonstration program by Dr. Subroto Roy on Empirical Musicology.

Dr Subroto Roy a music scholar having done PhD in music would like to share his post doctoral research work signifying that since “Raga is not contextually frozen with definite qualities that collectively give an unchangeable phenomenal character to the listner’s experience or performer, standardizing qualia of ragas and performance based on such standardization are not proper”. The Raga as sounded by the Guru is its best testimony. Preserving media actually do a disservice to Raga because listeners, enthusiasts, and learners tend to imitate rather than imagine and interpret, making Ragas as best, relics. Despite the fact that each Raga is believed to give a definite feeling called Rasa, a Raga is naturally performed or sounded differently. Renderings of a Raga sung by different masters of different times are different which changes qualia. Dr Roy will demonstrate this by singing and will also give examples of great masters using audio recordings.
Dr Roy’s presentation will be followed by a 20 minute question answer session.

SEMPRE, Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research by University of London specially awarded Dr Roy when he presented his research in a two day International conference held in UK on Indian music “Raga has no fixed Qualia”.

Dr Roy is a journalist by profession and his career spans over 17 year. He holds a graduate degree in Journalism. He was associated with Times of India, DNA, Mid Day and many more tabloids and was involved in reportage and reviews of music & education.

He is also a visiting faculty at many music schools.

Venue for the program: AV Hall of Abasaheb Garware College, Karve Road Pune
Date for the program: Tuesday 1st June 2010
Time for the program: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
(Please present yourself at the venue by 5:55 PM).

R V Kulkarni
President
Vidnyan Bharati Pune

RSVP: Yogendra Kunte
Cell No: 9764792291

Comments of a leader (Prof Graham Welch)

G Welch to me
It was a pleasure to meet you in Leeds. The presentation was very good!
Best wishes for all your work in India!
Graham
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Professor Graham F Welch, PhD
IoEUL Chair of Music Education
Department of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Education,
University of London,
20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL
Deputy Dean, Faculty of Culture & Pedagogy

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Chair, SEMPRE (Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research)
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President Elect, International Society for Music Education (ISME)

Sunday, April 8, 2012

http://www.sakaaltimes.com/20111106/5264151525328068939.htm

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Interview published by Vasumita S Adarsh in Sakaal Times, November 6, 2011 page 2

Monday, September 12, 2011

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Monday, May 2, 2011

article links

The article on Sanskrit can be found in the following link in the column 'View Point'http://epaper.sakaaltimes.com/SakaalTimes/28Apr2011/Enlarge/page8.htm
Also, the article titled 'Genesis of Svara' can be found inhttp://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-29/edit-page/29483387_1_naad-unstruck-sound-anaahat

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Did Prophet Mohammad Learn Yoga

http://epaper.sakaaltimes.com/SakaalTimes/30Sep2010/Enlarge/page8.htm

Friday, August 6, 2010

In the 'Story of Hindustani Music' under the section Bhakti movement, the ITC Sangeet Research Academy mentions that the word 'bhakti was first used in around 800 BC, but the Bhagwat Geeta which certainly predates this estimate describes the Bhakti Marg. Scientists in NASA have shown that the Mahabharata war was fought in 3027 BC and hence the date of the word 'Bhakti' is much earlier. Again you have written 'evolution' of Hindustani music. This seems to be in keeping with Western paradigm of time which is on the one hand reductionist and on the other linear. The Indian way of looking at time is cyclical and does not presume any unidirectional 'growth' or evolution of anything; somethings evolve while other aspects in the same thing might degenerate. This is so true looking at the Egyptian pyramids; the first pyramid is the most perfect and the subsequent ones are degenerate.

Empirical Musicology Conference 2010, UK; Abstract

Rāga has no fixed Qualia
By Subroto Roy[1]
Key words: Art music, quality, qualia, pleasure, rasa, rāga, media, ethics, svara, tones, semitones, microtones, guru, nava rasa, Bharat

Abstract
This paper argues that since rāga is not contextually frozen with definite qualities that collectively give an unchangeable phenomenal character to the listener’s experience or performer, standardising qualia of rāgas and performance based on such standardisation are not proper. The rāga as sounded by the guru is its best testimony. Preserving media actually do a disservice to rāga because listeners, enthusiasts, and learners, tend to imitate rather than imagine and interpret, making rāgas at best, relics. The mutating nature of rāga makes identifying its qualia more complex than seeing say, a red coloured patch and its qualia, and writing about it. Despite the fact that each rāga is believed to give a definite feeling called ‘rasa’ from among the Nava Rasa of Bharaṯ, a rāga is naturally performed or sounded differently. Renderings of a raaga sung by different masters of different times have been compared to drive home these thoughts.
[1] PhD/M.A., University of Pune. Post-doctoral fellow at the National Film Archives of India, Pune

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