2. First Impressions
 
 
1. Introduction
3. Feelings
4. Making Music
5. Aural Maps
6. Aural Travellers
7. Familiar Audiences
8. An 'Aural' Curriculum
9. Refining the Repertoire
10. Informing Original Work
11. Performance & Presentation
12. Assessment & Evaluation
Indian Music Theory
Indian Music & Dance
Indian Musical Instruments

Outcomes for Studies of Asia

Outcomes for Essential Learnings

Resources & References

  Share and enjoy the 'FIRST TIME' experience of discovering a performing arts event in an excerpt from the performance of an 'early morning raga', Raga Lalit, by Hariprasad Chaurasia on Indian flute. At this time there is no need to respond to the music in any other way than to enjoy it as a 'first time experience'. There need be no questions and no discussion!

'This is an early morning raga. The awakening of a new day gives me a feeling of awe and worship. If a blind man said that he had not ever seen the dawn, I would play him this raga as a musical experience of the first rays of the sun.'

Hariprasad Chaurasia. Flute: 'Raga Lalit'. Anindo Chatterjee (tabla) and Roopak Kulkarni (flute) Recording engineer Avinash Oak. CDA 91008 Music Today, From India Today PO Box 29 New Delhi - 110 001 India.

India is the world's second most populous nation, with over a billion (1,000,000,000) people. Thus it may be difficult to imagine that it also has relatively unpopulated regions. Listen to this mix of music and soundscape, created by Indian musicians, of a sandstorm in one of India's deserts.

 
What images were conjured up for you in the past when somebody talked about India? Do you think the 'real' India would be anything like your imagined India? If you were given a chance to travel to India
  • where in India might you most like to go?
  • what in India might you most like to see?
  • what in India might you most like to do?

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Last revised: July 03, 2002