Expressions of the Modern: The Khayal, Improvisation, and the 20th-century Indian song
Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri will be giving an online course at Ashoka University on the khayal as a form of modernist and non-representational expression.
About The Course | 19th, 20th and 26th March, 2022
The khayal is a musical form based on a Hindi song in two parts that recur between expanding cycles of melodic and rhythmic improvisation. The course will explore, among other things, how this style gives us a way of thinking about music’s relationship to the world that is strikingly different from European music.