Passages
Encyclopedia
Passages is a musical album
in the style of chamber music
co-composed by Ravi Shankar
and Philip Glass
and released in 1990 by RCA Victor. The album's content is a hybrid of Ravi Shankar's signature sitar
playing and Hindustani classical music
and Philip Glass's distinct American minimalist contemporary classical style.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
in the style of chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
co-composed by Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...
and Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
and released in 1990 by RCA Victor. The album's content is a hybrid of Ravi Shankar's signature sitar
Sitar
The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...
playing and Hindustani classical music
Hindustani classical music
Hindustani classical music is the Hindustani or North Indian style of Indian classical music found throughout the northern Indian subcontinent. The style is sometimes called North Indian Classical Music or Shāstriya Sangeet...
and Philip Glass's distinct American minimalist contemporary classical style.
Track listing
- "Offering" – 9:47
- "Sadhanipa" – 8:37
- "Channels and Winds" – 8:00
- "Ragas in Minor Scale" – 7:37
- "Meetings Along the Edge" – 8:11
- "Prashanti" – 13:40