Music—a medium to meet God. Everyone loves and wants to be able to sing songs and play an instrument. This book, Md. Rafi ke 51 Geeton Ki sargam, has the Sargam or Swarlipi in the English language and in the SRGM style. The book contains 51 famous songs sung by singer Md. Rafi including Hindi film songs, songs for various emotions and feelings, bhajans, gazals etc. The book captures the different moods of Md. Rafi, and anybody with a basic knowledge of sargam can play these songs easily by following the notes in this book. The songs are based on different Taals like Kaharwa, Daadra, Rupak, Jhaptaal are included in this book. So pick up this book, and enjoy some priceless, heavenly music.

“Nature has music to those who listen,” says Shakespeare. How true this is! Have you ever felt the music in the swaying trees, the blossoming flowers, the cry of a baby, the gush of the storm? Have you seen those little ants energetically running in unity? Have you seen the birds that step up and down, up and down? Have you seen the tiny toddlers falling and relentlessly rising up? Have you watched them closely to understand the motivation they carry? Listen to the Music Around is a collection of experiences of how nature and my surroundings imparted in me powerful lessons to bring back my motivation at every step in life. Do you feel down? Do you feel lost? Do you feel isolated? Traverse with me and let’s learn from every little thing around us together! Listen to the Music Around.

This book, elucidates the basic steps called Adavus of Bharata Natyam in the traditional Pandanallur style, as taught by the revered Gurus Sri Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai and Sri Muthukumara Pillai, to Sri T.K Narayan and Smt. Jayalakshmi Narayan, parents of the author. It is an honest attempt to explain the various steps with unerring and accurate execution technique. The book offers a visual representation of the Adavus with the help of stick diagrams in a sequential manner so that the beginners and practitioners can understand the finer points of each movement. The author has developed simple schematics to show the various moves, such as jump, stretch, turn, hit etc. The author endeavours to illustrate Adavus in a precise manner in this book. Classification and categorization of each step is the salient feature of this work. Gayathri Keshavan makes a humble effort to pass on the knowledge of this ancient and sacred art to the present and future generations of Bharata Natyam dancers.

Dictionary of Music and Staff Notation is about the various definitions of musical terms. Many of them are very difficult to find since they are not available in all music dictionaries. In staff notation section the notation is described in a very simple way and different topics related to music are covered in it. The book will be helpful for students as well as teachers.

The boy had the blessings of a fakir who would wander around in his village, singing songs. The boy would follow him around, singing after him. One day, the fakir picked him up and said: 'Son, the world shall take your name with love and reverence, people will aspire to become like you.' The boy grew up to be Mohammad Rafi. In this vivid biography, Zia Imam tells us things we never knew about the greatest playback singer India's Hindi film industry has ever had.

Nava Varna Kritis are a great gift for us all. The structure of those songs and the ragas selected for each chakra are a beauty. Dikshitar systematically reaches from base to Bindu in each song and explains the greatness of the position of the chakra. The last Mantra Keerthana comprehensively covers all mantras of the chakra. This shows the depth of research and understanding Dikshitar had on the Sri Vidhya Maha Shodasakshari mantra learnt from Sri. Chidambara Swamiji. So far, there is no clear notation for such difficult songs and a student finds it difficult to learn the song in a proper way. This book brings out the notation to the benefit of music lovers and students. It provides a brief explanation of each sentence of the song for understanding the same.Muthuswami Dikshitar's life incidents in paintings, which are the first of its kind, have been presented in this book. The book has been published in three languages: English, Tamil and Telugu for wide circulation.