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Effort in Hindustani Dhrupad Singing: Using Interviews to Develop Effort Inference Models of Acoustic and Movement Features

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Abstract

This article sets out the results of research into effort in Dhrupad, a genre of Hindustani music. I examine gestural interactions with imaginary objects that vocalists outline when engaging with melodies. The study takes an embodied cognition stance and applies thematic analysis and inductive coding to original interviews with Dhrupad musicians in India, the UK, and the Netherlands. My findings demonstrate that from the singers’ cognitive perspectives, their hand movements are deeply connected to their voices. I also offer insights on the relationships between bodily movement, sound, and imagery that are used to inform the development of effort inference models.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , First View , pp. 1 - 23
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance

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