How to Play Indian Sitar Raags on a Piano

Book excerpt: "Indian raags have an extraordinary musical heritage dating back several centuries (from the area that is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) -- a truly unique musical genre of fascinating melodic beauty and rhythmic intricacy -- freely combining eleaborate composed melodies with carefully rehearsed improvisation. This rich and intriguing music is traditionally performed on sitar -- or instruments such as the sarangi, sarod, esraj or voice -- and has previously been generally unavailable to pianists. But now the amazing world of Indian raags has been opened up in this sympathetic but thorough reinvention for piano solo (or duet or two pianos) by an award-winning British composer."--Back cover.