Transcription and analysis of Ravi Shankar's Morning Love for Western flute, sitar, tabla and tanpura

The purpose of this study is to provide a transcription and musical analysis of Ravi Shankar’s Morning Love for Western flute, sitar, tabla and tanpura. This document provides a discussion of Ravi Shankar’s biography, a theoretical context for the piece including an introduction to Hindustani musical characteristics, and prescriptive transcriptions of Morning Love in Western and Indian notation. A detailed analysis of the piece applies the Hindustani classical musical characteristics discussed. Morning Love is one of only two pieces for Western flute composed by Ravi Shankar as a result of his collaboration with French flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal. Prior to this research, there was no transcription of Morning Love: Shankar taught the composition to Rampal by ear and all that existed was a professional audio recording, Improvisations - West Meets East (1976). This study provides a transcription of Morning Love, allowing for a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the piece and also making it more accessible to Western musicians who are interested in performing it.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Music

Grantor

Music

Year dc:date.available

2013

Author dc:creator

• Padgett, Bethany

• Indian
• Morning Love
• sitar
• flute
• Hindustani
• analysis
• transcription
• Shankar
• tabla

Statement dc:rights

• unrestricted
• Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide.

Identifier

etd-06132013-161429
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/511

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.lsu.edu:gradschool_dissertations-1510