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Abstract: For generations, composers of the "Western practice" have been fascinated with the music of other cultures as well as with their own cultural folk traditions. Claude Debussy's Pagodes is famously thought to be inspired by Javanese Gamelan music he had encountered at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle. Similarly, a number of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály's scores show their incorporation ... read moreof Hungarian, Romanian, and Serbian folk music transcribed on their travels into their own compositions. Following in this culturally explorative tradition, this thesis composition aims to explore possible bridges between Hindustani Classical, folk, and popular Bollywood music with concert music in an organic and culturally sensitive manner. My composition, titled "Ichak Dana", is based on a folk rendition of a Bollywood song from 1955. It aims to stay within the parameters of a classical raga, and incorporates Hindustani Classical and folk methods of improvisation.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2017.
Submitted to the Dept. of Music.
Advisor: John McDonald.
Committee: Arnold Friedman, and Kareem Roustom.
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