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  Tarjumā-i-Mānakutūhala & Risāla-i-Rāgadarpaṇa    
(KMS No. 21)

FAQIRULLAH (NAWAB SAIF KHAN)

 Edited, annotated and Translated by SHAHAB SARMADEE

1996 lxviii+314pp., b & w plates, notes, appen., index,  ISBN : 81-208-1282-4, Rs 500 (HB)

Book Excerpt - article published in Newsletter

The volume presents two combined treatises in Persian, one a translation and the other an original work on the subject of the practice music of the time.

The Risalah is in ten chapters, the 1st chapter dealing with reasons of its compilation; 2nd on identifying ragas; 3rd on assignments of season and appropriate hour of day and night to every raga; 4th on the perception of suras (svaras); 5th on the correct identification of various saz (vadya, instruments) ; 6th on explaining the demerits of goindah (a poet composer cum performing musician); 7th on the delineation of awaz (various throat qualities), their categorisation and consideration of the hanjarah (larynx); 8th on knowing about the qualities of ustad-i-kamil (master of art); 9th on understanding of brindah (vrnda, orchestra) and about the advantages of performing in orchestration ; 10th as regards the goindahs (poet-musicians) who have lived during the time. The khatimah (conclusion), occurring towards the close of the book conveys the author's brief note on the Kashmiri music of his time.
 
 

SHAHAB SARMADEE graduated from the University of Allahabad. His education in music was initiated at the Prayag Sangita Samiti under Pt.Kusalkar and P.Patwardhan. Further training was under the guidance of many noted musicians.

He was invited by the Centre for Advanced Studies, Aligarh, as Visiting Fellow, and there he edited and annotated the earliest known work in Persian on Indian music. This was followed by Bio-bibliographical Survey of all available works on the subject of song, dance and drama in many of the leading languages of the country, under the title Nur Ratnakara.

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