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This is the first course of the North Indian Classical Music program, which aims to introduce this music tradition to any music motivated learner by combining theoretical and practical teaching approaches. This course presents the fundamental elements of North Indian Classical Music, from the Swara (note) and Laya (tempo) to the concepts of Raga (melodic framework) and Tala (rhythm framework). By the end of the course, the student will be able to sing basic scales and patterns and will be prepared to explore and practice the more advanced concepts of composition, development and performance presented in the subsequent two courses of the program.
Students will receive feedback through a series of quizzes and by submitting practical performance assignments that are evaluated by assistant teachers with the support of the Music Critic technology.
This course was developed in collaboration with Ragasphere and practical performance assignments are powered by MusicCritic.
Below you will find an overview of the Learning Outcomes you will achieve as you complete this course.
· Understanding of the Saptak (Scale) and its similarities and differences from the Western scale
· Understanding of the positioning of notes and microtones.
· Ability to sing or play on an instrument, the scale and various patterns to reinforce the understanding of the above concepts
· Understanding of the concept of the Raga and the rules governing a Raga relating to permitted and excluded notes in the ascending and descending order, expressed through the “Chalan” of the Raga.
· Understanding of how even a rigid structure allows for expansion and improvisation and does not remain a constraint.
· Ability to sing or play on an instrument, melodic phrases in a Raga.
· Understanding of the concept of Tala and its structure.
· Understanding of how the Raga and the Tala come together to form the Bandish (composition).
· Ability to sing or play on an instrument, a Bandish in one Raga, with some simple Alaaps and Taans.
Nitin is an engineer by basic education, and a musician by chosen vocation. He spent the first 15 years of his working life as a marketing professional with a large MNC engineering company. Quitting his job to pursue his basic passion, music, as a performing flautist in Hindustani Classical Music, Nitin also obtained a Master's degree in music. He has conducted an immensely popular series of listener education workshops on Hindustani Classical Music. The workshops had a total attendance of nearly 10,000 music lovers.
At the age of 37, Yashaswi has already been learning for more than 2 decades from one of the masters of Khayal performance, Smt. Padma Talwalkar.
She has established herself as an artist of repute, with performances at many prestigious venues and conferences, and some important awards including the Sangeet Natak Academy award for young artists.
Sameehan is the son and disciple of one of India’s most renowned vocalists, Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar. Born in such a richly musical atmosphere, he has been receiving training of the highest order from his celebrated father since a very young age, and now has established himself as one of the finest musicians of his generation.
He has given solo performances at various major music festivals in India and abroad, and is a recipient of many important awards.
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Thank you for your interest in our course.
This is a unique course because it has a double purpose:
The program aims to provide an understanding of the basic concepts and structure of North Indian Classical Music, to students and performers of other genres of music, and help them explore it vocally or on their instruments. This program will also prepare students of Hindustani Classical Music, both vocal and instrumental, to pursue learning from a teacher or a Guru.
At the same time it has been conceived as a pilot course to test a new system of automatic assessment of music performance.
The Music Technology Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) has built the Music Critic Technology. This technology aims to facilitate the learner's assessment, making it more automatic and less human-dependent, it facilitates the subjective assessment by teachers by means of computing objective similarity scores from examples given by the teachers.
Users under 18 years of age are not allowed to participate in this Course.
Kadenze is collaborating with Universitat Pompeu Fabra to test this new technology in this Course.
How does it work?
• You will be asked to upload into the Kadenze learning environment audio recordings for your exercises.
• Kadenze will code your identity and send your audio recordings (without your identifier information) to Music Critic for assessment.
• Music Critic will evaluate it and will store your audio recording indefinitely with the aim of improving Music Critic systems.
• Music Critic will send the assessment of your audio recording back to Kadenze's learning environment, and the teacher will validate it.
• The teacher will ask you to post your feedback on this new system through a survey to be filled out anonymously and send to the Music Technology Group.
• As in any other course you do not have to do all the exercises or complete the course, but Universitat Pompeu Fabra would very much appreciate if you collaborate with us on this pilot.
• You may contact Oriol Romani (oriol.romani@upf.edu) for any further information
By registering to this course YOU CONSENT:
• Your coded audio recording (without personally identifiable information) will be sent to Music Critic systems (Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Spain) for analysis and evaluation purposes.
• Your coded audio recording can be stored indefinitely in Music Critic systems with the purpose of improving the Music Critic technology.
The Music Critic automatic assessment of your audio recordings will be sent back to Kadenze's learning environment to be reviewed and validated by the teacher of your course.
Your anonymous feedback on the automatic assessment system will be sent to Music Technology Group.
By registering to this course YOU CERTIFY that you are 18 years of age or older.
YOU CONSENT to have your audio recordings licensed with a Creative Commons License with the aim that the Music Critic audio recordings database could be used by others:
• Public Domain Creative Commons License (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
• Attribution 4.0 Creative Commons License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) ONLY in this case, Kadenze will send your audio recordings to Music Critic system with your first name and surname, so that you can be given appropriate credit.
