Richard Widdess

Biographic Data

ID	5961592
NAME	Richard Widdess
GIVEN NAMES	Richard
FAMILY NAME	Widdess
SIGNATURE	WIDDESS R
AFFILIATIONS	SOAS University of London
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	39
TOTAL CITATIONS	15
AUTHOR COUNT	36
EDITOR COUNT	3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2024
H-INDEX	2

A ḍamaru for Jagat-Candra: A historical musical instrument from Nepal
Open AccessNutandhar Sharma, Richard WiddessARTICLEEuropean Bulletin of Himalayan…2024
Historical musical instruments are rare in Nepal. So far, a few examples of ritual instruments associated with former rulers have been identified. A previously unpublished hour-glass-shaped pellet-drum (ḍamaru) from seventeenth-century Bhaktapur is of special interest because it bears inscriptions and representations of human figures that indicate the date and circumstances of its creation. Particularly significant are the name ‘Jagat-Candra’ – t…
Vitality and Sustainability of Traditional Music: Survey of Devotional Singing Groups (dāphā khalaḥ) in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Open AccessNutandhar Sharma, Richard Widde et al.ARTICLEHIMALAYA2024
Dāphā bhajan is a participatory genre of Hindu-Buddhist devotional music, sung by groups of farmers and other Newar singers in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. It is deeply integrated with local neighbourhood communities, but owing to recent disasters (the 2015 earthquake, the 2020-2022 Covid-19 pandemic) and ongoing cultural changes, its sustainability is in doubt. In 2022-2023 the authors conducted a survey of selected groups to investigate the per…
Histories of the Ephemeral. Podcast series hosted by Katherine Butler Schofield. In English
Open AccessRichard WiddessARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2020
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Vīṇā
Alastair Dick, Richard Widdess et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2019
Music, Meaning and Culture
Open AccessRichard Widde, Richard WiddessARTICLEEmpirical Musicology Review2012Cited by: 2References: 5
This paper situates musical meaning in culture, addressing music as social symbol and as ongoing process of meaning creation. Three examples of non- Western musical practice are used to illustrate the embedding of musical meaning in cultural context. The performance of an Australian Aboriginal song is shown to exemplify the interdependence of song style and social structure as a matrix for the emergence of cultural meanings; an example of North I…
Qambel Māran: Syriac Chants from South India. 2002. Ethnic Series. PAN Records PAN 2085. Recorded and annotated by Joseph J. Packalal. 16 pages of notes in English. 3 colour, 3 B/W photographs, 1 map.…
Open AccessRichard WiddessARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2005
Qambel Māran: Syriac Chants from South India. 2002. Ethnic Series. PAN Records PAN 2085. Recorded and annotated by Joseph J. Packalal. 16 pages of notes in English. 3 colour, 3 B/W photographs, 1 map. 5-item bibliography. 1 compact disc, 29 tracks (66:00). Recorded in the field. - Volume 37
The Prince of Love: Vocal art of north india. 2004. Celestial Harmonies 13238-2. Performed by Pandit Premkumar Mallik. Recorded by Wolfgang Hoff. Annotated by Peter Pannke. 10 pages of notes in Englis…
Open AccessRichard WiddessARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2005
the prince of love: vocal art of north india. 2004. Celestial Harmonies 13238-2. Performed by Pandit Premkumar Mallik. Recorded by Wolfgang Hoff. Annotated by Peter Pannke. 10 pages of notes in English. 4 colour photographs. 1 compact disc, 9 tracks (78:51). - Volume 37
India, Theory and practice of classical music
Harold S Powers, Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
India, Theory and practice of classical music: Compositions, genres and performance of vocal music
Harold S Powers, Richard Widdess et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
India, Theory and practice of classical music: Rāga
Harold S Powers, Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Mode in South Asia: ‘Rāga’
Harold S Powers, Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Ālāpa
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Ṭhumrī
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Rasa
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Gharānā
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Khayāl
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Dhrupad
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Mode
Harold S Powers, Frans Wiering et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Nepal, Kingdom of
Richard Widdess, Gert-Matthias Wegner et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Picken, Laurence
Lucy Durán, Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Gat
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Mode' as a musicological concept in the Middle East and Asia
Harold S Powers, Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
India, subcontinent of
Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Regula Qureshi et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Śruti
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Vīṇā
Alastair Dick, Richard Widdess et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

India
Richard Widdess, Neil Sorrel et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times1982
Khyal: Creativity within North India's Classical Music Tradition
Richard Widde, Richard Widdess et al.ARTICLEAsian Music1985
British Journal of Ethnomusicology, Vol. 1
Laurent Aubert, John Baily et al.ARTICLECahiers de musiques traditionnelles1993
Sound recordings
John Baily, Keith Howard et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Ethnomusicology1993
Baloutchistan: Musiques d'extase et de guérison . OCORA C 580017/18. Recordings made by Jean During between 1978 and 1990. Trésors du Pakistan . Playasound PS 65082. Recordings made and collected by Kutsi Erguner, undated. Han'guk ui chont'ong umak: 21 segirul wihan KBS‐FM ui pangsang umak siriju [Korean traditional music: Music for the 21st century presented by KBS‐FM]. 9 CDs, KIFM‐001—009. Seoul: KBS, 1992. Han'guk ui chont'ong umak [A selectio…
Festivals ofdhrupadin northern India: New contexts for an ancient art
Richard Widde, Richard WiddessARTICLEBritish Journal of Ethnomusicology1994Cited by: 2References: 2
Although dhrupad is believed to be the oldest and most sacred genre of North Indian vocal art‐music, its performance suffered a severe decline in the middle decades of the present century. In recent years, however, a revival of interest in the genre has occurred. Since 1975, festivals of dhrupad in Banaras, Vrindaban and other centres have provided a catalyst for revival, in the form of a context for dhrupad performance that respects the ideology…
Involving the Performers in Transcription and Analysis: A Collaborative Approach to Dhrupad
Richard Widde, Richard WiddessARTICLEEthnomusicology1994Cited by: 11References: 2
whether claiming the prefix ethno- or not, is likely to remain that of writing about music; for it is through writing that his or her work becomes permanently and widely available to others.1 Written musical notation, in a form that can be widely applied and widely understood, will therefore presumably continue to be an essential tool by which to communicate ideas about music that cannot be effectively or economically expressed in words alone. At…
The Rāgas of Early Indian Music: Modes, Melodies and Musical Notations from the Gupta Period to c. 1250
James Kippen, James R Kippen et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1997
Dhrupadas aus Darbhanga, Nordinien
Richard Widde, Richard Widdess et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1997
The Ragas of Early Indian Music: Modes, Melodies and Musical Notation from the Gupta Period to c. 1250
Narayanan Ramanathan, Richard Widde et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1998
The concept of raga, the traditional basis of melodic composition and improvisation in Indian classical music, has become familiar to listeners and musicologists throughout the world, but its historial origins and early development have been little explored. This book draws on written documents from the pre-Islamic period in India, including musical treatises (expecially that of the thirteenth-century theorist, Sarngadeva), literary works, and a …
India, Theory and practice of classical music
Harold S Powers, Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
India, Theory and practice of classical music: Compositions, genres and performance of vocal music
Harold S Powers, Richard Widdess et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
India, Theory and practice of classical music: Rāga
Harold S Powers, Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Mode in South Asia: ‘Rāga’
Harold S Powers, Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Ālāpa
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Ṭhumrī
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Rasa
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Gharānā
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Khayāl
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Dhrupad
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Mode
Harold S Powers, Frans Wiering et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Nepal, Kingdom of
Richard Widdess, Gert-Matthias Wegner et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Picken, Laurence
Lucy Durán, Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Gat
Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
Mode' as a musicological concept in the Middle East and Asia
Harold S Powers, Richard WiddessCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001
India, subcontinent of
Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Regula Qureshi et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001