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Indian Music and Dance

Indian Music and Dance. World Cultures 6. Indian Music. Purposes: Religious inspiration Cultural expression Entertainment These are also known as: Ceremonial Artistic Recreational. Indian Music. Pop Rock and Roll Indy-Rock persuasion? Folk Music. Indian Music. Rock and Roll

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Indian Music and Dance

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  1. Indian Music and Dance World Cultures 6

  2. Indian Music • Purposes: • Religious inspiration • Cultural expression • Entertainment • These are also known as: • Ceremonial • Artistic • Recreational

  3. Indian Music • Pop • Rock and Roll • Indy-Rock persuasion? • Folk Music

  4. Indian Music • Rock and Roll • John Coltrane • Bud Shank • The Beatles • Grateful Dead • Rolling Stones • Ravi Shankar

  5. Indian Music • Isolation of India  unique musical tradition • distinctive sounds of instruments

  6. Indian Music • Musical instruments • Sitar • Tabla • Sarod • Sarangi

  7. Indian Music • Folk Music • Maharashtra • Similar to poetry • Lavani • Females only!!! • Dandiya • Small sticks • Warrior training

  8. Indian Music • Sangeet • Vocal • Instrumental • Very ceremonial • Qawwali • Devotional music • 1 or 2 lead singers • Several chorus singers

  9. Indian Music • Don’t forget to look/listen for these: • Tempo – how fast or slow the music goes • Dynamics – crescendo/decrescendo • Distinctive sounds of the instruments

  10. Indian Music • Movie scene • Sangeet Music • Sitar Recital • Maharashtra • Lord Ganesha video

  11. Dance Terms • Duration – the length of time the movement lasts

  12. Dance Terms • Direction – where a dancer moves

  13. Dance Terms • Pathway – the path a dancer makes across the floor • zig-zag, straight, curved, winding • others you can think of?

  14. Dance Terms • Tempo – how fast or slow the movement is

  15. Dance Terms • Loco motor – movements that usually travel through space

  16. Dance Terms • Non loco motor – movements that most often stay in one place

  17. Dance Terms • Shape – the design of the body as it exists in space

  18. Dance Terms • Space – where the body moves • Personal space – space around me! • General space – space a dancer has to use

  19. Dance Terms • Force – how heavy/light, sharp/smooth, tense/relaxed, bound/flowing a movement is

  20. Indian Dance • Isolation of culture or region results in a unique dance tradition • classical dance forms from India, bharata natyam, kathak

  21. Indian Dance • Sangeet Dance • Wedding sangeet • Bharata Natyam information video

  22. Bharata natyam • Tempo • Force • LM or NLM or both?

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