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Of two Arias and Nine Ragas: analysing Monteverdi through a Karnatik lens
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Mani, C, Of two Arias and Nine Ragas: analysing Monteverdi through a Karnatik lens, Music Analysis, 41, (3) pp. 470-494. ISSN 0262-5245 (2022) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Commencing from an elaboration of extant theoretical and analytical positions in Monteverdi studies, this article closely analyses two of the most well-known arias from Claudio Monteverdi's earliest opera, L'Orfeo (1607), from the melodic perspective of the Karnatik music of South India. In identifying ragas within Monteverdi's melodic structures, this approach evidences the author's practice-based explorations of the arias while harking back to global influences that have shaped the identity formation of Western music. This approach to music analysis serves two primary purposes. First, it offers one way to decolonise and reimagine the music that emerged from an essentially multicultural early modern Europe. Second, in privileging artist-researchers’ embodied oral aural knowledges, which emerge from practice, the approach makes a case for analytical approaches which aid in practice and which offer complementary lenses through which to view locate knowledges that are complex, embodied and non-Western in their theoretical and analytical bases.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | Monteverdi, analysis, ragas, Karnatik, analysis |
| Research Division: | Creative Arts and Writing |
| Research Group: | Music |
| Research Field: | Musicology and ethnomusicology |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies |
| UTAS Author: | Mani, C (Dr Charulatha Mani) |
| ID Code: | 154173 |
| Year Published: | 2022 |
| Deposited By: | Music |
| Deposited On: | 2022-11-05 |
| Last Modified: | 2022-12-15 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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