Gayaki of Gokhale Gharana
naniwadekar
Ganesh Mahadev (Ganapatibuwa) Gokhale was a well-known
musician when Govindrao Tembe was growing up in Kolhapur
(1890s). S V Gokhale has supplied a note on Ganapatibuwa
Gokhale (no relation) and his style in Tembe's Marathi
book 'Maajhaa Sangeet Vyaasang'. This post offers a
translation of S V Gokhale's note.
Gokhale brothers named Ganapati (born around 1845),
Vishnu, Shivram and Krishna were singers but only the
first two took music seriously. (I guess Ganapatibuwa
Gokhale was sometimes referred to as Ganapatibuwa
Mirajkar. - dn) His guru parampara stretched to Sadarang's
disciple Bahadur Khan. Bahadur Khan's parampara had
established 'Miyan Gayaki'. Alladiya Khan used to claim
kinship with Miyan Gharana. It sought to combine the gait
of khayal with Dhrupad's austerity. It shunned excess of
taal-kreeda and taan-baazi; but made judicious use of
aad-laya and 'pech-daar taans'. The gayaki relied on
meend, kaN, huunkaar, behlava, murki, harkat. Their
cheezs had excellent literary content. The gayaki called
for delicate voice. It used raag-roops which are
different from the canon. Bhimpalas had komal dhaivat.
Pancham was Bageshri's vadi. Bhoop-Deskar used all seven
notes. Khat, Zeelaf, Devgandhar, Lachchhasakh, Lachari
Todi, Laxmi Todi, Miyan Sarang were not considered achhop
raags. Raags were categorised along six main raags, their
wives and so on. (Whether their categorization was the
same as in raag-raagini paddhati is left unsaid in
Gokhale's note.) But though the system was different from
the one we are used to, it was clearly detailed and
bandishes were built along the specified rules.
K G Ingale had published a book 'Gokhale Gharane kii
gayaki' in 1935 but S V Gokhale says the book was very
cursory and full of major mistakes and is useless for
those students who might want to know about
the now-extinct paddhati. Ganapatibuwa, born around 1845,
spent his active years in Miraj (hence the name Mirajkar)
and later moved to Kolhapur where Tembe would see him at
music baithaks.
The next generation of the Gokhales after Ganapati-Vishnu
brothers took taaliim but they were besura singers and
corrupted the gayaki with absurd mannerisms. After that,
nobody in the family took to music. But people like
Dr Moghe had heard the original sweet gayaki and retained
some knowledge of it. These alert connoisseurs had passed
on some aspects of it to their disciples. S V Gokhale's
note, written in 1984, said that some of these
little-known singers, all of whom must have been quite
old that time, were the only remaining source who could
give a glimpse of the delights of that gayaki.
It is quite possible that someone like Anandrao Limaye
had interacted with that gharana's people based in
Kolhapur. Alas, it is almost 10 years since even
Limayebuwa left us. I wonder whether some vocal samples
on tape and the gayaki's authoritative interpreter
survive in the Kolhapur area today.
- dn
Rajan P. Parrikar
>I wonder whether some vocal samples
>on tape and the gayaki's authoritative interpreter
>survive in the Kolhapur area today.
There is a Gokhale gharana composition presented
by B.R. Deodhar in Raga Sarparda Bilawal -
http://www.sawf.org/audio/bilawal/deodhar_sarpardabilawal.ram
Warm regards,
r
Abhik Majumdar
thanks, and can we have some more?
Abhik
naniwadekar
"Abhik Majumdar" <a.maj...@mailandnews.com> wrote -
>
> Just wanted to say your piece satisfied an old query of mine. Many
> thanks, and can we have some more?
>
I shall devote myself wholeheartedly to discovery of new
gharanas but I am afraid I cannot promise to deliver
some (or even one) more.
But what is this matter about an old query of yours being
satisfied by my post? Come on, Abhik, don't be cryptic.
For a moment I had wondered whether Gokhale Gharana's
sampoorna jaati Bhoop-Deskar conformed to Sharangadev's
description of them but I think Sharang Dev has those raags
to be pentatonic only. His texts, says my treacherous memory,
have rishabh and dhaivat komal in Bhoop.
- dn
naniwadekar
> thanks, and can we have some more?
>
11-12 hours after reading your post, my tubelight has begun
to flicker. You had been wondering all these months about
the reference to Gokhale Gharana in Deodhar's Sarparda Bilawal
clip. This thread satisfied that old query of yours. And you would
like to have some more cheezs of Gokhale Gharana. Correct?
Close? Still very, very far? All of the above? None of the above?
- dn
Abhik Majumdar
Nothing cryptic about it, just that I frequently keep coming across
references to it, but hadn't managed to get more info on it till I saw
your post.
>You had been wondering all these months about the reference to
Gokhale Gharana in Deodhar's Sarparda Bilawal
>clip.
Inter alia, yes. Also other references, which I can't recollect at the
moment.
>And you would
>like to have some more cheezs of Gokhale Gharana.
Actually, more than cheezs, my interests lie in the history of music
and its developement (stylistical and otherwise).
Abhik
nehapr...@gmail.com
i am prashant prabhakar gokhale
the one of the nominee from the gokhale who's the gokhale gharane ki gayaki,i have a original documents of gokhale gharane,
if you have to conferm the same,
pl well come to my residence in miraj,
my cell no is 09422042842 and 09637906139,pl notice in advance
thanq
prashant gokhale
krishnanand sahaniwas
brahmanpuri,jilebi chouck
miraj 416410 dist sangli