SPONTANEITY, THE SOUL OF MUSIC
If improvisation is replaced by memorised rendition of phrases all the time, the performance loses spontaneity, charm and the element of surprise. The forced accommodation of phrases and stylistic patterns breaks the flow of the music and robs the rendition of aesthetics. The melody is lost amidst the structural rigour and the 'raagroop' (the character of the raag) is destroyed as the artiste resorts to enforced embellishment prepared in advance. This is not proper presentation and is the reason why artistes, otherwise capable, fail to captivate the audience over a period of time and have to resort to gimmicks and cheap display of musical gymnastics to capture their attention. And yet they fail for the public somehow can sense the lacuna in presentation and gradually shift their allegiance to some other artiste better endowed with musical merit.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Ustad Abdul Karim Khan
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