- Indian Ragas & Medieval Songs - Dominique Vellard

Ensemble: Dominique Vellard, Ken Zuckerman, Swapan Chaudhuri, Keyvan Chemirani Album: Meeting - Two Worlds Of Modal Music - Indian Ragas & Medieval Song Video: Polo, Livre des merveilles (1410) • The present recording offers a rare opportunity to experience two different musical worlds in dialogue: the reconstructed musical culture of the European Middle Ages, and the ancient but still continuous tradition of North Indian classical music, two worlds that are indeed separated with respect to time and geography, and yet still linked by common characteristic features. The classical tradition of North Indian music, whose origins can be traced back to antiquity, is marked both by a strong adherence to its own origins and an openness to influences from other cultures. The forms that are still practiced today emerged from a fusion of Hindu and Islamic traditions, which reached their greatest blossoming in the sixteenth century. North Indian music is based on