The sixth string of Vilayat Khan
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TextPublication details: Chennai Context 2018Description: 253 pISBN: 9789357763271Subject(s): sitar | string music | biographyDDC classification: 927.8782 Summary: Meditative and playful, generous and ruthless, he was many things to many people. He broke hearts and he broke rules. He tinkered as furiously with his car as he did with his instrument, which he transformed technically to create the new sitar standard. And always there was the music, at the centre of his being, protected and unharmed—music that contained the sound of 'fairies dancing, elephants walking. Vilayat Khan saw music. He was the man who made the sitar sing.
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Kannur University Central Library Stack | Stack | 927.8782 NAM/S (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 68611 |
Meditative and playful, generous and ruthless, he was many things to many people. He broke hearts and he broke rules. He tinkered as furiously with his car as he did with his instrument, which he transformed technically to create the new sitar standard. And always there was the music, at the centre of his being, protected and unharmed—music that contained the sound of 'fairies dancing, elephants walking. Vilayat Khan saw music. He was the man who made the sitar sing.
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