Drum Training
Publication Date
1980-07-20Publisher
World Oral Literature Project
Language
Other
Type
Audio
Metadata
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Naresh visits again this morning. More v interesting info learnt.
I persuade him to chant one of the drum sequences he’s learnt, which I tape: called Deo Layagu it is to be played outside a shrine (as opposed to the longer “Chore” which is played on processions through the town). I try to quiz him on different sounds and their relation to different beats: “khin” and “kha” refer to striking the drum with a stick as held in the left hand; “Ta” = a slap with the right hand with fingers splayed open (on one point of drum face – Naresh can’t remember whether it’s at the centre or the side); while “NURRA” refers to a finger run (a 4-hit tattoo using index finger first through to little finger last).
Abstract
A chant of a drum sequence called Deo Layagu.
Keywords
Drumming, Vocalised Drumming, Nepal, Nepalese, Patan, Buddhist, Oral Tradition, Oral Literature, Linguistic Anthropology, Newari
Spatial Coverage
Patan, Nepal
Temporal Coverage
1980
Identifiers
This record's URL: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/226718
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported