Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tagore, Rabindranath
• Lal, Ananda
• Ray, Satyajit

Titel

Songs of Tagore: Poetry and Melody

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Rabindranath Tagore composed over 2000 songs that are revered and sung by Bengalis everywhere. However, they remain mostly unknown to listeners from other communities. This book brings the Nobel laureate's unique music-Rabindrasangit-to a global audience, with a lucid introduction by Ananda Lal as well as selected songs in international transcription and English translation. It includes an essay written originally in Bengali by the celebrated filmmaker Satyajit Ray, himself a Tagore student and music composer. Ray presents his thoughts on Rabindrasangit, its nuances, music, history, and usage. Lal has also translated this essay into English for the first time. The book also presents, for the first time, faithful staff notations of all forty-one songs in three of Tagore's major plays-Rakta-karabi, Tapati and Arup Ratan-providing a thematic unity to the music section. This volume will be of interest to Tagore and Ray enthusiasts and specialists, musicologists and students of music, theatre, literature, performance studies and cultural studies. It will appeal not only to scholars but also to general readers wanting to know more about Tagore's songs, as well as directors, arrangers, composers and singers who may wish to perform or interpret the songs transcribed.