Deeper into Indian classical vocal music in Dhrupad style

• Singing a Râga, it will reveal its essence, its rules, its effects and beauty to you. It will unfold into yourself endowing you with its qualities.
  You will learn to improvise on the Alâp, the contemplative part of the Râga, experiencing it as a meditation and a way of worshiping; the Alâp is sung with plain sacred syllables evolved from original Mantra. The Alâp is the expression of the musical idea.
• Singing compositions on various Tâla (rhythmic cycles) you will be initiated to the Indian rhythms and through them learn to regulate your own inner rhythms.
  The compositions are poems sung on given rhythms; most of those poems are indeed prayers in praise of the divine under some of its miscellaneous forms. They can praise to God with or without forms and attributes. Some poems are describing a particular Râga or particular aspects of music. It can also be Sufi poetry or even praise to a monarch.
  
  

Some of the workshops might combine practices of another workshop and be enhanced or complemented by them. If you would like to organise a workshop at your home place on one of the above given themes -or a combination of them please contact Uma. She can give the workshops in French, in German, in English and in Spanish.