MUSIC MUSEUM OF NEPAL Tripureswor, Mahavev Temple Kathmandu

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Building of Music Museum Of Nepal,
Tripureswor, Mahavev Temple
Kathmandu

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Himalayan crowned male mask. The Music Museum of Nepal. Ethnoflorence coming soon and past edited pages.

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INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN

FOLK AND TRIBAL ARTS

2008 – 2016

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PARCOURS DES MONDES

2009

Parcours de Mondes 2019 Thomas Murray

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MASKS OF THE WORLD

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SANZA ARTS PREMIERS

BRUXELLES

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The Music Museum of Nepal was founded in the year 1995 with a view to collecting, preserving and glorifying Nepali folk musical instruments. There are more than 100 ethnic groups in Nepal, each with their own culture and traditions to mark every occasion from birth to death with music. Each group organizes various musical ceremonies and plays their own musical instruments in accordance with traditions and rituals. Many groups such as Gaine, Damai, Badi have adopted folk music as their way of life and play folk musical instruments professionally. Our study has found more than 525 kinds of musical instruments in Nepal. 

Folk musical instrument makers, musicians, singers and dancers have long had a lowly position in Nepalese society and their arts and skills have not been fully recognized, appreciated or properly rewarded. Consequently the people of Nepal have not generally developed a national pride in their folk music and successive Governments have not seen the importance in keeping alive the country’s intangible musical heritage. Many songs have undoubtedly already been irrevocably lost; many traditional folk musical instruments have disappeared. Nepalese culture is in a state of flux and the future of the extended family tradition is likewise unstable. Singers, musicians, dancers and instrument makers are consequently increasingly unable to pass on their arts and skilled crafts to their children and grand children.

 

From modest beginnings NFMIM has grown into a vibrant and dynamic institution where people with a common interest in Nepali folk music meet daily. It is a living museum.

 

The museums aims are the preservation and conservation of folk musical instruments and recording folk musicians, singers and dancers audio visually for posterity. These recordings are also used to promote interest in the museum’s work. Field research is ongoing and there is a regular weekly programme of concerts and meetings. The themes of these events are varied, always interesting and have concentrated on the music and/or folk songs of particular ethnic groups, have focused on a particular (often rare) instrument, have featured famous singers and musicians or have been dedicated to the memory of a beloved, past singer or musician.

 

Adults and children are encouraged, inspired and helped to learn playing techniques and in the future the museum hopes to be in a position to establish a research center, archive, library and school of folk music. It is envisaged that this school will provide accreditation and certification for the skills and achievements of musicians, singers, dancers and craftsmen. The museum wishes to promote and improve the status of these people in Nepal’s society and to inform all citizens about the musical heritage it stands to lose if remedial action is not taken before it is too late.

To this end in 2005 Ram Prasad Kadel published an illustrated catalogue of NFMIM’s collection in the Nepali Language ‘Nepali Lokbaajaa’ (Folk Musical Instruments of Nepal). It is hoped that the publication of his book in the English Language will serve to raise international awareness of Nepal’s contribution to world music and will encourage contact from music establishments and music lovers everywhere. The demise of Nepal’s unique musical heritage would not only be a National tragedy but would be a great loss for the wider Musical World.

See more on:

http://www.musicmuseumnepal.org/

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HIMALAYAN PRIMITIVE FIGURE

Carrying the God on his back,

Western Nepal.

detail

(Nepal figure no. 5)

 

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UNUSUAL HIMALAYAN MALE CROWNED MASK

Frontal view.

Interesting the balanced geometrical cut of the piece.

Cwown detail view.

Crown detail view.

 Frontal view detail.

 Frontal view detail.

Frontal view detail.

Side A view detail.

Side A view detail.

Side  A view detail.

Side A view detail.

Side A geometrical cut.

 Side A view detail.

Side B view.

 Side B view detail.

 Side B view detail.

 Side B view detail.

Back side view.

Back side view detail.

 

Back side view.