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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Alamkara"”.
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Gamaka and Alamkara : concepts of vocal ornamentation with reference to Bara Khayal
This research explores questions relating to ornamentation in North Indian classical vocal music with particular reference to ba1khayil. At a technical level it addresses the question, "What is 'ornamentation' in khayal.?" and subsequently approaches the question, "How does ornamentation transform …
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Teaching Through Devotion: The Poetics of Yaśaskara’s Devīstotra and Premodern Kashmir
The Devīstotra of Yaśaskara (c. 12th to 17th centuries CE), is a little studied and heretofore untranslated Sanskrit text from Kashmir. This thesis not only provides the first English translation and close reading of selections from the text, it uses the Devīstotra along with current research on …