Improvisation in Hindustani Classical Music - Key to the Phenomenon of Development and Beautification of the Raaga (HB) | By Basavi Mukerji (Author) | MLBD Publications

Basavi Mukerji is a Hindustani vocalist, scholar and guru with music releases in khayal, thumri and bhajan genres from renowned commercial labels and YouTube. Groomed for over three decades in the classical traditions of Gwalior, Kirana and Jaipur gharaanaas she has taught Hindustani vocal music as a senior professor for over twenty eight years at the Tagore founded university, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan and performed in and outside India for even longer.
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\nA graded artiste of AIR in khayal, she has a PhD from the University of Delhi, Delhi and several published articles and monographs on the various aspects of music in reputed journals, magazines and newspapers in English, Hindi and Bengali to her credit.
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\n“Improvisation in Hindustani Classical Music” is her maiden book based upon extensive research on this key element - the development or elaboration of the raga in its various song forms within Hindustani music.
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\nBasavi Mukerji lives in Santiniketan and as hobby, paints in oil and water mediums and occasionally writes poetry, mainly in English.