Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors.

Intro -- Kīrtana: Traditional South Indian Devotional Songs: Compositions of Tyāgarāja, Muttusvāmi Dīkṣitar and Śyāma Śāstri -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface -- Performers -- List of Plates -- Introduction: Musical Form in South India -- Chapter One: Tyāgarāja -- Biography -- Compositions (text, translation and music notation) -- 1. "Gānamūrtē", rāga Gānamūrti -- 2. "Lēmi delpa", rāga Navanīta or Pāvani -- 3. "Śrī Raghuvara", rāga Bhairavi -- 4. "Vēṇugānalōluni", rāga Kedāragaula -- 5. "Śrīpatē", rāga Nāgasvarāvali -- 6. "Vinarādā", rāga Devagāndhāri -- 7. "Yōcanā", rāga Darbār -- 8. "Vinavē ō manasā", rāga Vivardhani -- 9. "Sarasa sāma dāna", rāga Kāpinārāyaṇi -- 10. "Varanārada", rāga Vijayaśrī -- 11. "Śōbhillu saptasvara", rāga Jaganmohini -- 12. "Ninnu vinā nāmadendu", rāga Navarasakannada -- 13. "Sītākalyāṇa", rāga Kurañji -- 14. "Svararāgasudhā", rāga Śaṅkarābharaṇa -- Chapter Two: Muttusvāmi Dīkṣitar -- Biography -- Kamalāmbika Navāvaraṇa Kīrtana-s (text, translation and music notation) -- 1. Dhyāna kīrtana "Kamalāmbike", rāga Toḍi -- 2. "Kamalāmbā", rāga Ānandabhairavi -- 3. "Kamalāmbām", rāga Kalyāṇi -- 4. "Śrīkamalāmbikayā", rāga Śaṅkarābharaṇa -- 5. "Kamalāmbikāyai", rāga Kāmbhoji -- 6. "Śrīkamalāmbāyāḥ", rāga Bhairavi -- 7. "Kamalāmbikāyās", rāga Punnāgavarāli -- 8. "Śrīkamalāmbikāyām", rāga Sahāna -- 9. "Śrīkamalāmbike", rāga Ghaṇṭā -- 10. "Śrīkamalāmbā", rāga Āhiri -- 11. Maṅgalakīrtana "Śrīkamalāmbike Śive", rāga Śrī -- Other compositions (text, translation and music notation) -- 12. "Vātāpi gaṇapatim", rāga Haṃsadhvani -- 13. "Nīrajākṣi Kāmākṣi", rāga Hindola -- 14. "Śrī Rāmaṃ", rāga Nārāyaṇagaula -- 15. "Ambā nīlāyatākṣi", rāga Nīlāmbari -- 16. "Akhilāṇḍeśvari", rāga Dvijavanti -- 17. "Śrī Varalakṣmī", rāga Śrī -- Chapter Three: Śyāma Śāstri and Subbarāya Śāstri -- Biography.

Compositions of Śyāma Śāstri (text, translation and music notation) -- 1. "Pāhi śrī girirājasute", rāga Ānandabhairavi -- 2. "Trilokamātā", rāga Paraju -- 3. "Ninnu vināga mari", rāga Pūrvikalyāṇi -- 4. "Janani natajanaparipālini", rāga Sāveri -- 5. "Himādrisute", rāga Kalyāṇi -- 6. "Mari vērēgati", rāga Ānandabhairavi -- 7. "Pāliñcu Kāmākṣi", rāga Madhyamāvati -- 8. "Kāmākṣī anudinamu", rāga Bhairavi -- 9. "Dēvī brōva samayam idē", rāga Cintāmaṇi -- Composition of Subbarāya Śāstri (text, translation and music notation) -- 10. "Vanajāsana", rāga Śrī -- Chapter Four: The role of the Vīṇā in South Indian music -- Appendices -- Table of Gamaka I -- Table of Gamaka II -- South Indian Melakartā System -- Classical South Indian Tāla System -- Popular South Indian Tālas -- Bibliography -- Music Notation of the Compositions -- Key to the music notation -- Contents of the Audio CD.

Yasmina Wicks's investigation of the mortuary practices and beliefs of southwest Iran's inhabitants during the last chapter of Elamite history (ca. 1000-520 BCE) enhances our understanding of an important, but often overlooked, entity of the ancient Near East.

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