Harmonium Classes Course Objectives
By the time this level is
achieved, the understudy is considered
capable in the field of music. He/she
ought to be mindful of the subtleties of
the distinctive raags, and have his/her
autonomous understanding, and more
imperatively, ought to be able to
express and clarify this to the
audience. Tuning one’s claim instrument
expertly is a viewpoint that has
uncommon noteworthiness here. The
understudy ought to moreover be able to
perform the diverse shapes of music like
dhrupad, thumri, and tappa in their
fitting style.
Harmonium Classes Course Content
Swar: The understudy
ought to have the capacity to soak up
any composition that is sung or
displayed in documentation. He/she ought
to be able to change a composition into
the gaayakiang.
Raag: The understudy
ought to be mindful of the finest
subtleties of all the raags. He/she
ought to be able to compose a few sargam
and bandish, and too utilize aalap,
taans and bol-taans with meend, gamak,
aandolan, etc competently in his/her
introduction of the raag. Here, the rasa
of the raag and the temperament of the
bandish must be kept in intellect. The
understudy will be instructed a vilambit
and a drut khyaal / maseetkhani and
rajakhani gat in Raags Gaud Malhar, Gaud
Sarang, Lalat, Shree, Purvi, Marwa, and
Todi. These vilambit khyaals ought to be
set to diverse taals like Ektaal,
Teentaal, Tilwada and Jhumra. He/she
ought to be able to perform these raags
for upto thirty minutes. Too, the
understudy will be prepared to perform a
madhya-laya bandish for upto fifteen
minutes in Raags Jogi, Sindhura, Kafi,
Tilang and Sohoni. Displaying a dhrupad
and a dhamaar composition in aad
(off-beat), twofold, triple and fourfold
laya, as well as two taranas, and one
trivat is moreover anticipated from the
understudy. He/she will be inquired to
perform a few semi-classical shape such
as a thumri, natya-geet, dadra, or any
other frame in a territorial language.
Taal: The understudy
ought to be able to appear all the taals
learnt hence distant and say them in
diverse laya. In expansion to this,
Taals Jhumra, Aada Chautaal, Dheema
Tritaal, Dhamaar, Matta-taal, and
Surfakta are included in this course.
The understudy ought to be able to say
and compose the theka of diverse taals
in troublesome laya such as twofold,
triple, four times, one and half times,
two in three, four in three, three in
four, etc.
Theory: The
understudy will be inquired to compose a
brief life story of Pt. Vishnu Digambar
Paluskar, Pt. Balkrishnabua
Ichalkaranjikar, Pt. Ramkrushnabua Vaze,
Sangeet Samrat Tansen, Pt. Omkarnath
Thakur, Pt. Shankarrao Pandit of
Gwalior, Maseet Khan, Rajaa Khan, etc.
There will too be papers on subjects
such as the sorts of khyaal-gaayan, the
put of verse in music, likenesses and
contrasts between the Jaipur and Gwalior
gharanas, a comparative consider of
Hindustani and Carnatic styles, etc.
Separated from this, the understudy will
be anticipated to have comprehensive
information approximately points such as
the antiquated sorts of nibaddha and
anibaddha gaan, raag aalap, rupak aalap,
the history of the classification of
shrutis into swars, the raag-ragini
framework, thaat and raag-ang framework
etc. The understudy ought to be
well-versed in all the raags learnt,
such that he/she can donate a point by
point depiction of the subtleties of all
the raags, compose his/her possess
aalaps and taans, and appear the
likenesses and contrasts between raags
that are near to each other. The
understudy ought to moreover be able to
perceive raags indeed from troublesome
composed swar-arrangements. He/she is
anticipated to compose aalaps with
alpatva-bahutva, avirbhaav-tirobhaav and
appear how the shadow of diverse raags
develops through the aalap, and moreover
type in compositions of distinctive
sorts in the documentation styles of Pt.
Bhatkhande and Pt. Paluskar. Separated
from this, the rules of ensemble
composition and information of tuning
the rebellious for the most part
utilized in an symphony is too portion
of the educational programs. He/she
ought to moreover have point by point
information almost the contrast between
the Hindustani and Carnatic taal
framework, gram murchhana, sorts of
gamak, a brief history of the
advancement of music, as too assist
expand data around the wording learnt in
the past courses. The understudy ought
to be well-versed with the tanpura and
will be inquired to depict the other
swars and shrutis rising from it.