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# The Raga Guide: Survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas

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Product description "This text is an introduction to Hindustani ragas, the melodic basis for the classical music of northern India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. It is the modern reference work for listeners and connoisseurs, students and scholars.: desertcart.com These four CDs tucked into a meaty, comprehensive book portray and explain the different histories, tonalities, and rhythms of 74 of Hindu's most common ragas. The raga, a musical form of ancient Hindustani prayer and poetry, has been the cornerstone of Indian music for centuries, evolving into a complex set of expressions inviting improvisation and varying according to purpose, mood, story, and ritual. Stately in their sounds, ragas are most often created with sitar, sarod, tabla, tamboura (or drone), and voice with each note functioning as an evocation of the world's sanctity. The Raga Guide offers five hours and 15 minutes of stunningly beautiful music, played by masters of the instrument and accompanied by informative description, music transcriptions, and (where applicable) texts with English translations. Lovingly recorded, carefully authored, simply laid out, this wonderful package is the essence of perfection, topped off by exquisite color plates of ragamalas, or paintings depicting the stories of the ragas. A sublime tribute to Indian classical music. --Karen Karleski

Review: Exquisite samples of timeless Hindustani ragas performed beautifully. - This set is an overview of classical Hindustani Music of the Raga genere. The book gives one a great tutorial of ragas in general and then each specific piece corresponding to the 4 attached CDs. Also the book contains the libretto for vocal numbers in Hindi and translation of the same in English. The Hindi portion is of great help if one wishes to follow the vocal numbers closely. The artists are top notch. Folks familiar with this music will recognize Buddahdev, Hariprasad, Chausaria, and Shruti. The recoding quality is very good. I just can't get over the marvelous intonations of Shruti Sadoliker. The music is just plain beautiful with a timeless quality and "clean", viz., you get genuine instrumentation and vocals not a corrupt work using modern instruments. Each piece needs to be savoured and enjoyed for sheer beauty and the logic of the movements. One caveat. The packaging leaves lot to be desired as other reviewers have pointed out. But considering the price and what you get this is a tremendous bargain. If you wish to get a starting reference point into the beautiful world of Hindustani Ragas get this set pronto! Superb music. A must have.
Review: Consider it a Fodor's Guide to the Raga form. Great info, but needs a spiral binding. - My goodness! What a comprehensive guide to ragas...and it's only really an introduction, since there are thousands of ragas. After a brief introduction to the form and its elements (12 pages), each raga is noted on two facing pages, and set out in western notation, annotated by srgmpdns as well. Four CDs are within protective plastic sleeves glued inside the front and rear covers, and each contain well over an hour of music. I copied them right to iTunes for reference on my laptop and iPhone. I would have appreciated their playing the ascent and descent notes and the melodic outline first, before launching into a brief performance--it's really that "by ear" reference I was hoping for. I don't read music. The ascent-descent, melodic outline and performance are notated with line and staff and srgmpdns methods. For the beginner, a simple recitation of the scale would have been appreciated. The book itself is printed on glossy, heavy weight stock, the kind you'd get in a coffee table photography book, and bound into a paperback book in a fashion that resists opening the book to lie flat. When using it flat, so it stays open while you have a sitar or guitar in your lap, the pages loosen and begin to fall out on the first use. This is an annoyance, to be sure, but not fatal to the purchase, because of the quality of the paper. The pages come out quite easily and cleanly and the book, pages, cover and all can be brought to an office supply store (or your company's printing or repro dept. for spiral binding. I brought the pulled out and separated pages and covers (without CDs) to Staples and for about $4.26 I had it spiral bound, the way it should have been from the beginning. So: an annoyance, but not so bad...besides, where else are you going to get this music laid out for you in such a fashion, except during a lifetime of study? You'll still need a lifetime to understand this complex and rich music, but the journey will be a guided one. Consider it a Fodor's Guide to the raga form.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B00000JT5P |
| Best Sellers Rank | #201,454 in CDs & Vinyl ( See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl ) #149 in Indian & Pakistani Music #85,229 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (84) |
| Date First Available  | December 7, 2006 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer  | No |
| Item model number  | NI55369 |
| Label  | Nimbus Records |
| Manufacturer  | Nimbus Records |
| Number of discs  | 4 |
| Original Release Date  | 1999 |
| Product Dimensions  | 9.84 x 5.79 x 0.59 inches; 1.31 Pounds |
| SPARS Code  | DDD |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Exquisite samples of timeless Hindustani ragas performed beautifully.
*by K***L on January 10, 2008*

This set is an overview of classical Hindustani Music of the Raga genere. The book gives one a great tutorial of ragas in general and then each specific piece corresponding to the 4 attached CDs. Also the book contains the libretto for vocal numbers in Hindi and translation of the same in English. The Hindi portion is of great help if one wishes to follow the vocal numbers closely. The artists are top notch. Folks familiar with this music will recognize Buddahdev, Hariprasad, Chausaria, and Shruti. The recoding quality is very good. I just can't get over the marvelous intonations of Shruti Sadoliker. The music is just plain beautiful with a timeless quality and "clean", viz., you get genuine instrumentation and vocals not a corrupt work using modern instruments. Each piece needs to be savoured and enjoyed for sheer beauty and the logic of the movements. One caveat. The packaging leaves lot to be desired as other reviewers have pointed out. But considering the price and what you get this is a tremendous bargain. If you wish to get a starting reference point into the beautiful world of Hindustani Ragas get this set pronto! Superb music. A must have.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Consider it a Fodor's Guide to the Raga form. Great info, but needs a spiral binding.
*by P***W on October 29, 2017*

My goodness! What a comprehensive guide to ragas...and it's only really an introduction, since there are thousands of ragas. After a brief introduction to the form and its elements (12 pages), each raga is noted on two facing pages, and set out in western notation, annotated by srgmpdns as well. Four CDs are within protective plastic sleeves glued inside the front and rear covers, and each contain well over an hour of music. I copied them right to iTunes for reference on my laptop and iPhone. I would have appreciated their playing the ascent and descent notes and the melodic outline first, before launching into a brief performance--it's really that "by ear" reference I was hoping for. I don't read music. The ascent-descent, melodic outline and performance are notated with line and staff and srgmpdns methods. For the beginner, a simple recitation of the scale would have been appreciated. The book itself is printed on glossy, heavy weight stock, the kind you'd get in a coffee table photography book, and bound into a paperback book in a fashion that resists opening the book to lie flat. When using it flat, so it stays open while you have a sitar or guitar in your lap, the pages loosen and begin to fall out on the first use. This is an annoyance, to be sure, but not fatal to the purchase, because of the quality of the paper. The pages come out quite easily and cleanly and the book, pages, cover and all can be brought to an office supply store (or your company's printing or repro dept. for spiral binding. I brought the pulled out and separated pages and covers (without CDs) to Staples and for about $4.26 I had it spiral bound, the way it should have been from the beginning. So: an annoyance, but not so bad...besides, where else are you going to get this music laid out for you in such a fashion, except during a lifetime of study? You'll still need a lifetime to understand this complex and rich music, but the journey will be a guided one. Consider it a Fodor's Guide to the raga form.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very informative concise book for Beginners in Indian classical music
*by G***R on July 29, 2011*

I have grown up listening to Indian Classical music, and am learning to play the Harmonium. This book is a good distillation of knowledge about Indian Classical music. Following are the positive points that I thought make this book very good : 1. Organized and structured - Ragas are organized Alphabetically and have indexes to map them to the CDs. 2. Performances included in the CDs are very good 3. Notations are provided for the performances on the CD. It could be made more useful if they included the lyrics for vocals below the notation. That would give more insight to the connection of notes to words. 4. Information about each Raga is crisp yet detailed enough for a beginner. Overall good book to have in your collection as a supplement to your Guru's teachings. Cheers, Gourang

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