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Authored Books

Widdess, Richard (2013) Dāphā: Sacred singing in a South Asian city. Music, performance and meaning in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Abingdon: Routledge. (SOAS Musicology Series)

Widdess, Richard and Sanyal, R. (2004) Dhrupad. Tradition and Performance in Indian Music. Farnham: Ashgate.

Widdess, Richard (1995) The Ragas of Early Indian Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Widdess, Richard, Mukherji, Somangshu and Peiris, Eshantha, eds. (2024) Analytical Approaches to Music of South Asia, Volume 1 (2023). New York: International Foundation for Theory and Analysis of World Music.

Book Chapters

Widdess, Richard (2020) 'Lokapañca: Analysing Structure, Performance and Meanings of a Temple Song in Nepal.' In: Borio, Gianmario, Giuriati, Giovanni, Cecchi, Alessandro and Lutzu, Marco, (eds.), Investigating Musical Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections. London: Routledge, pp. 220-234. (Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century)

Widdess, Richard (2019) 'Time Changes: Heterometric Music in South Asia.' In: Wolf, Richard, Blum, Stephen and Hasty, Christopher, (eds.), Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 273-313.

Widdess, Richard (2018) 'World Music: Historical Dimensions.' In: Lawson, Colin and Stowell, Robin, (eds.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 693-695.

Widdess, Richard (2015) 'North India.' In: Church, Michael, (ed.), The other classical musics: fifteen great traditions. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, pp. 139-159.

Widdess, Richard (2015) 'Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music.' In: Orsini, Francesca and Schofield, Katherine Butler, (eds.), Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.

Widdess, Richard (2013) 'Schemas and improvisation in Indian music.' In: Kempson, Ruth, Howes, Christine and Orwin, Martin, (eds.), Language, Music and Interaction. London: College Publications, pp. 197-209.

Widdess, Richard (2011) 'Dynamics of melodic discourse in Indian music: Budhaditya Mukherjee’s ālāp in rāg Pūriyā-Kalyān.' In: Tenzer, Michael and Roeder, John, (eds.), Analytical and cross-cultural studies in world music. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 187-224.

Widdess, Richard (2010) 'Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken 1909-2007.' In: Johnston, Ron, (ed.), Proceedings of the British Academy, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 226-255.

Widdess, Richard and Wegner, Gert-Matthias (2005) 'Musical miniatures from Nepal: two Newar ragamalas.' In: Pal, Pratapaditya, (ed.), Nepal: Old Images, New Insights. Bombay: Marg Publications, pp. 81-91.

Widdess, Richard (2001) 'India, III: Theory and practice of classical music.' In: Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John, (eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan, pp. 170-210.

Widdess, Richard (2001) 'Kirtana [and] Thumri [and] Dhrupad [and] Tala [and] Raga [and] Sruti [and] Sangita [and] Rasa [and] Gharana [and] Gat [and] Alapa [and] Kriti [and] Khayal.' In: Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John, (eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan.

Widdess, Richard and Wegner, Gert-Matthias (2001) 'Nepal, Kingdom of, I. Music in the Kathmandu Valley.' In: Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John, (eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan, pp. 757-760.

Widdess, Richard and Duran, Lucy (2001) 'Picken, Laurence.' In: Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John, (eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan, pp. 718-719.

Widdess, Richard and Ruckert, G. (2000) 'Hindustani raga.' In: Arnold, A., (ed.), The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 5: South Asia, the Indian subcontinent. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., pp. 64-88.

Journal Article

Holzapfel, Andre, Benetos, Emmanouil, Killick, Andrew and Widdess, Richard (2022) 'Humanities and Engineering Perspectives on Music Transcription:.' Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37 (3). pp. 747-764.

Popescu, Tudor, Widdess, Richard and Rohrmeier, Martin (2021) 'Western listeners detect boundary hierarchy in Indian music: a segmentation study.' Scientific Reports, 11. p. 3112.

Widdess, Richard, Finkensiep, Christoph and Rohrmeier, Martin (2019) 'Modelling the Syntax of North Indian Melodies With a Generalized Graph Grammar.' Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 2019. pp. 462-469.

Rohrmeier, Martin and Widdess, Richard (2017) 'Incidental Learning of Melodic Structure of North Indian Music.' Cognitive Science, 41 (5). pp. 1299-1327.

Widdess, Richard (2015) 'Pulling chariots, singing songs: Musical structure, performance and cultural meaning in a dāphā song from Nepal.' Cultural Musicology iZine [Online].

Widdess, Richard (2014) 'Orality, writing and music in South Asia.' Musicology Today, 19.

Widdess, Richard (2012) 'Music, meaning and culture.' Empirical Musicology Review, 7 (1–2).

Widdess, Richard (2011) 'Dāphā: dancing gods, virtual pilgrimage and sacred singing in Bhaktapur, Nepal.' Musike, 5/6. pp. 55-79.

Widdess, Richard (2011) 'Implicit Rāga Knowledge in the Kathmandu Valley.' Analytical Approaches to World Music, 1 (1).

Widdess, Richard (2006) 'Musical Structure, Performance and Meaning: the Case of a Stick-Dance from Nepal.' Ethnomusicology Forum, 15 (2). pp. 179-213.

Nooshin, L. and Widdess, Richard (2006) 'Improvisation in Iranian and Indian music.' Journal of the Indian Musicological Society, 36–37. pp. 104-119.

Widdess, Richard and Wegner, Gert-Matthias (2004) 'Musical Miniatures from Nepal: Two Newar Ragamalas.' Marg. A Magazine of the Arts, 56 (2). pp. 28-39.

Widdess, Richard (2004) 'Caryā and Cacā: Change and Continuity in Newar Buddhist Ritual Song.' Asian Music, 35 (2). pp. 7-41.

Widdess, Richard (2003) 'Time, space and music in the Kathmandu Valley.' Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies, 32. p. 32.

Widdess, Richard (1994) 'Involving the Performers in Transcription and Analysis: A Collaborative Approach to Dhrupad.' Ethnomusicology, 38 (1). pp. 59-80.

Basra, Khalid and Widdess, Richard (1989) 'Dhrupad in Pakistan: the Talwandi gharana.' Dhrupad Annual, 4. pp. 1-10.

Films

Widdess, Richard, Sowa, Anna and Sowa, Remi (2022) Gũlā: Music of a Sacred Time. University of the West of England, Bristol. Available from https://screenworks.org.uk/archive/volume-12-2/gul....

Other

Widdess, Richard (2006) 'Rāga.' London: Centre of South Asian Studies, SOAS.