Prachalit Raag by Prasad Kulkarni

This Book contains the study material for all prachalit 43 Ragas included in the 2006 curriculum of ‘Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal’ upto ‘Visharad’ level. Each Raga is introduced with its basics, its specialty, and a ‘Bandish’ with notations. Based on that Raag Hindi/Marathi film songs, Natyageets, Bhavgeets and Classical compositions (bandish) are given.     Book also includes the ‘10 Thaats’ with their scale, different ‘Taals’ with a song on that Taal, permutations of major scales for practice (Shuddha Swar Alankars), a table based on notes relating to Indian and Western Classical style of notes, introduction to ‘Gharanas’, Table of classification of Ragas (Rag-Samaychakra).     Plus, list of 114 film music directors and master vocalists and instrumentalists etc. is also provided. Leading 10 music directors information with their famous film songs is also given.     This book also includes comprehensive information about Harmonium, its history, playing styles etc.     In the new edition, Pictures of music legends & 8 Indian Dance forms are included for new generation children.     ‘Vande Mataram’, ‘Jana Gana Mana’,Gazals, Desh-bhaktigeet notations and some other popular Bhajans notations are also given.