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Improvisation in Alapana Performance: A Comparative View of Raga Shankarabharana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Gayathri Rajapur Kassebaum
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Improvisation is an essential aspect of Indian music and Indian culture. It is evident not only in music but in the other arts, literature, and in the folk tradition. Improvisation is a continuous process that has flourished from the past to the present in India.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 19 , 1987 , pp. 45 - 64
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Copyright © 1987 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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