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no-equivalent-term · mcneil2017-seed-ideas
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- mcneil2017-seed-ideas
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- no-equivalent-term
- Assertion
- Although Hindustani music is widely celebrated as an improvising tradition, its lexicon has no equivalent term for 'improvisation'; terms such as badhat, vistaar and upaj signify growth, expansion and spontaneity, and McNeil proposes a model of fixed 'seed ideas' expanded in performance.
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While Hindustani music is often celebrated around the world as a powerful improvising tradition, paradoxically no equivalent term for ‘improvisation’ exists in the lexicon of Hindustani music. Terms such as badhat, vistaar and upaj, which signify growth, expansion and spontaneity, are often conflated with Western notions of improvisation
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- en
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- section: Abstract
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