Gitanjali for English-Speaking Singers
42 Songs from Nobel Prize Winning Book by Rabindranath Tagore
This book may be regarded as a book of notations of Tagore songs or it can be used as a college or university level text book. Secondly, the people with origin in the Indian subcontinent, living in the United States or abroad, who have a good idea about the richness of Tagore's music and are most eager to pass this treasured heritage to the next generation, will find it extremely helpful for this purpose.
To make the singers ready with the fundamental concepts of Indian music, a textbook on this subject, "Indian Music for English-Speaking Singers” has already been designed and published by the present writer.
Synopsis
There are 103 pieces of poems in Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Prize-winning book GITANJALI, of which 42 pieces [translations of songs with available notations] have been chosen as the content of this book. This book has three parts. In the first part, topics like life history of the poet, background story of his success in winning the Nobel Prize and broad idea of his musical specialty have been discussed. The second part is the main part of the book and it consists of 42 songs from English Gitanjali along with their corresponding Bengali equivalents and alphanumeric notations. Alternative tunes and rhymes are added wherever it is needed. Back matters like appendices and indices are in the third part of the book.
The cover is the picture of offering of flowers, which represent the songs of the book.
