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Ustad Bismillah Khan

Keywords: Shehnai music
Music--India

Publisher: Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi

Description: The video presents a shehnai performance by the eminent Hindustani classical musician Ustad Bismillah Khan.
Ustad Bismillah Khan (1916-2006) is one of the most recognizable faces of Hindustani classical music. His attention to pitch, phrasing and the expert execution of meends, pukars, khatkas, murkis, zamzams, taans and gamaks on the shehnai transformed the instrument. Under Bismillah Khan the shehnai came out of its ceremonial context and began to be acknowledged as a classical music instrument. One of the highlights of his concert performances was the performance of passages where the shehnai took centre stage and all other accompaniments fell silent. The shehnai alone would explore musical intensity and emotion in full silence only to break it with a crescendo on the mukhda or the sam.

Source: Sangeet Natak Akademi

Type: Video

Received From: Sangeet Natak Akademi


DC Field Value
dc.contributor Sangeet Natak Akademi
dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-04T22:02:05Z
dc.date.available 2017-07-04T22:02:05Z
dc.description The video presents a shehnai performance by the eminent Hindustani classical musician Ustad Bismillah Khan.
Ustad Bismillah Khan (1916-2006) is one of the most recognizable faces of Hindustani classical music. His attention to pitch, phrasing and the expert execution of meends, pukars, khatkas, murkis, zamzams, taans and gamaks on the shehnai transformed the instrument. Under Bismillah Khan the shehnai came out of its ceremonial context and began to be acknowledged as a classical music instrument. One of the highlights of his concert performances was the performance of passages where the shehnai took centre stage and all other accompaniments fell silent. The shehnai alone would explore musical intensity and emotion in full silence only to break it with a crescendo on the mukhda or the sam.
dc.source Sangeet Natak Akademi
dc.format.mimetype text/htmlvideo/mp4
dc.publisher Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
dc.subject Shehnai music
Music--India
dc.type Video
dc.format.medium video
dc.format.duration 0:01:09
dc.contributor.musician Khan, Bismillah
DC Field Value
dc.contributor Sangeet Natak Akademi
dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-04T22:02:05Z
dc.date.available 2017-07-04T22:02:05Z
dc.description The video presents a shehnai performance by the eminent Hindustani classical musician Ustad Bismillah Khan.
Ustad Bismillah Khan (1916-2006) is one of the most recognizable faces of Hindustani classical music. His attention to pitch, phrasing and the expert execution of meends, pukars, khatkas, murkis, zamzams, taans and gamaks on the shehnai transformed the instrument. Under Bismillah Khan the shehnai came out of its ceremonial context and began to be acknowledged as a classical music instrument. One of the highlights of his concert performances was the performance of passages where the shehnai took centre stage and all other accompaniments fell silent. The shehnai alone would explore musical intensity and emotion in full silence only to break it with a crescendo on the mukhda or the sam.
dc.source Sangeet Natak Akademi
dc.format.mimetype text/htmlvideo/mp4
dc.publisher Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
dc.subject Shehnai music
Music--India
dc.type Video
dc.format.medium video
dc.format.duration 0:01:09
dc.contributor.musician Khan, Bismillah