• 1996
• 261 p.
• Book and Compact Disc
• 7 illustrations, 18 tab., 219 musical examples, index, bibliography, appendices
• Hc
• 13,5 x
• (UVP): EUR 38,00
• ISBN 3-86135-640-6

"Sufyana musiqi" (Sufi music) is the vocal ensemble music of the urban elite of Kashmir, a part of Jammu and Kashmir, the nothernmost province of India. It functions principally as a religious music, being connected with the rituals of the Sufis (Muslim mystics) and as an elite entertainment music performed in a secular context. Sufyana reflects the cultural position of Kashmir as a meeting point between the Persian-dominated culture of Central Asia and India.
Through the description and analysis of the practice, repertory, context, and theory, the book documents this now quickly disappearing tradition. It contains an analytical catalog of forty-seven maqam suites in use in the 1970s and 1980s.

Contents

Introduction

Part 2 The Tradition of sufyana

Maqam

Maqam

Maqam

1. 'Araq
2. Asavari (navroz-e-khara)
3. 'Ashiran
4. Bahar ('ushshaq)
5. Bayate
6. Behag (bihag, hijaz)
7. Behbas
8. Bhairavi (bharvi)
9. Bilaval
10. Buzurg
11. Chargah (chahargah)
12. Dhanasri
13. Divgandhar (kanada)
14. Gabri (hisar)
15. Husayni (zarkash)
16. Jangla (mukhalif)
17. Jazvanti
18. Jinjoti (manj, majiri)
19. Kanada (divgandhar)
20. Khamanch (khamanche, khamanch, kamanche, kamanj, asfahan, isfahan, safahan)
21. Kochak (kalyan)
22. Kuhi (mubaraqa')
23. Lalit
24. Malhar (nihuft, mallar)
25. Nat kalyan (avj)
26. Nava
27. Navroz-e-'ajam
28. Navroz-e-'arab
29. Nayriz
30. Panjgah (rast-e-farsi)
31. Paraj (nayriz-e-kabir)
32. Purbi (zalab)
33. Rahavi (bastanegar)
34. Ramkali
35. Rast (rast-e-kashmiri)
36. Saba (navroz-e-saba)
37. Sarang
38. Segah
39. Sendhuri
40. Shahnaz (zengola)
41. Suhani (nishaporak)
42. Tilang (mahur)
43. Todi (buzurg)
44. Udasi (maghlub)
45. 'Uzzal ('uzzal-e-farsi)
46. Zaval (pahlavi, pahalvi)

Appendix 1 List of Principal Sufyana Musicians 1970-1990

Appendix 2 List of Manuscripts

Appendix 3 Notes for the Accompanying Compact Disc
Notes
Bibliography
Index