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'''Joseph J. Palackal''', [[Carmelites of Mary Immaculate|C.M.I.]] (born in [[Palackal]] family at [[Pallippuram, Alappuzha|Pallippuram]], near [[Cherthala]] in [[Alappuzha District|Alappuzha]], Kerala) is an Indic [[musicologist]], singer and composer, with special interests in the musical traditions of the [[Christianity in India|Indian Christians]]. He is also the Founder-President of the Christian Musicological Society of India.

==Research==
Palackal wrote a Master's thesis at [[Hunter College]] in 1995 on the various styles of singing the ''Puthenpaana'' [New Song], the [[Malayalam]] poem composed by the grammarian and lexicographer [[Johann Ernst Hanxleden]] (''Arnos Paathiri''), analysing the several cultural influences.<ref>{{AAT search link|1384737|title=Puthen Pana: A musical study}}</ref><ref>[http://thecmsindia.org/puthenpaana.txt ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507020224/http://thecmsindia.org/puthenpaana.txt |date=7 May 2008 }}</ref>

He wrote a doctoral thesis in [[ethnomusicology]] at the [[CUNY Graduate Center|Graduate Center]] of the [[City University of New York]] in 2005 on [[Syriac language|Syriac]] ([[Aramaic language|Aramaic]]) chant traditions in [[South India]], studying on the one hand the contemporary practice of model melodies of the [[Holy Qurbana of Addai and Mari|East-Syriac/Chaldean rite]] of the [[Syro-Malabar Church]], and, on the other hand, the [[oktoechos]] of the [[West Syrian Rite|West Syriac Rite]] of the [[Oriental Orthodoxy|Oriental Orthodox Churches]] of South India.<ref>http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3170204</ref><ref>[http://thecmsindia.org/syriac_chants.txt ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507020240/http://thecmsindia.org/syriac_chants.txt |date=7 May 2008 }}</ref>

As part of this doctoral work, Palackal brought out a CD, ''Qambel Maran'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thecmsindia.org/releases.html#qambel_maran |title=Christian Musicological Society of India: Releases |publisher=Thecmsindia.org |date=}}</ref> a collection of [[Syriac sacral music|Syriac chants]] in the Chaldean tradition of the Syro-Malabar Church; it includes the hymn ''Awun d'wasmayya'', i.e., the [[Lord's Prayer]] in [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]], arguably in the same words which were used by Jesus when he taught the ''Pater Noster'', compositions by [[Ephrem the Syrian|St. Ephrem the Syrian]] (notably the [[acrostic]] hymn ''Iso maaran m'siha'' on the name ''Iso M'siha'', i.e., [[Jesus Christ|Jesus the Messiah]]), and the Syriac translation ''Sabbah lesan'' of the [[Latin]] hymn ''[[Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium|Pange Lingua]]'' by [[St. Thomas Aquinas]]; these chants had up to then been preserved in the main only in [[oral tradition]]; among the singers is [[Fr. Abel|Fr. Abel Periyappuram]], the founder of the [[Kalabhavan]] and the key in the transition of the Syro-Malabar liturgy from Syriac (Aramaic) to [[Malayalam]].



==Professional work==

===Vocal works===
Palackal is the lead vocalist for about 30 works in Malayalam, [[Hindi]], [[Sanskrit]], English, and Aramaic (Syriac).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thecmsindia.org/releases.html |title=Christian Musicological Society of India: Releases |publisher=Thecmsindia.org |date=}}</ref>
He brought out in 1979 an [[LP record]], ''Christian Bhajans'', as part of an experiment under the aegis of Mar Cardinal [[Joseph Parecattil]] to devise a [[liturgy]] founded on the [[Music of India|Indian musical tradition]].<ref>[http://thecmsindia.org/bhajans_liner.txt ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507020141/http://thecmsindia.org/bhajans_liner.txt |date=7 May 2008 }}</ref> Another work is a semi-classical rendering of the Sanskrit poem ''Kristhusahasranaamam'' [The Thousand Names of Christ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thecmsindia.org/releases.html#sahasranaamam |title=Christian Musicological Society of India: Releases |publisher=Thecmsindia.org |date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://thecmsindia.org/releases.html#sahasranaamam1 |title=Christian Musicological Society of India: Releases |publisher=Thecmsindia.org |date=}}</ref> by the engineer and philologist [[I. C. Chacko, Illiparambil]]. He made his New York debut in 1990 with a guest appearance singing a Christian devotional song in Hindi in the [[off-Broadway]] show ''Nunsense''; later performance venues include [[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts]] and [[Princeton University]].

===Publications===
Palackal published several research papers on music in English and Malayalam.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thecmsindia.org/research.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=8 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529221009/http://www.thecmsindia.org/research.html |archive-date=29 May 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> As a consequence, he was invited to write articles on Indian Christian music in the [[New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]] and in the [[Garland Encyclopedia of World Music]]; neither encyclopaedia had dealt with the topic before.

He also published illustrations<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecmsindia.org/art.html |title=Christian Musicological Society of India: Christian Art |publisher=Thecmsindia.org |date=}}</ref> of various facets of their music, culture, and history; these include
the picture of an angel playing a five-stringed violin as carved on the wooden altar of St. Mary's Forane Church, Pallippuram, the iconic portrait of Christ the Guru<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thecmsindia.org/art.html#christ_guru |title=Christian Musicological Society of India: Christian Art |publisher=Thecmsindia.org |date=}}</ref> drawn by Joy Elamkunnapuzha, and the picture of the granite Cross<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thecmsindia.org/art.html#persian_cross |title=Christian Musicological Society of India: Christian Art |publisher=Thecmsindia.org |date=}}</ref>(c. 700 A. D.) at [[St. Thomas Mount]], [[Chennai]], the earliest available material evidence for a flourishing Christian community in India.

===Other achievements===
As composer, Palackal and George Thaila, commissioned by the Syro-Malabar Church, created music for the English Solemn High Mass in the Chaldean rite.

In an attempt to illumine the heritage of the Indian Christians, Palackal conceived and produced the documentary film ''Kerala: the Cradle of Christianity in South Asia''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thecmsindia.org/releases.html#cradle |title=Christian Musicological Society of India: Releases |publisher=Thecmsindia.org |date=}}</ref>

Palackal studied [[Hindustani classical music]] (vocal) under [[N. V. Patwardhan]], graduating from the [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda]]; he holds degrees in [[Christian theology]] and [[psychology]], the latter with a Gold medal from the Faculty of Arts of M. S. University, and held a National Merit Scholarship. He was, for a time, Dean of Studies at the Kalabhavan under Fr. Abel.

He also founded Nadopasana (1986), a society for the promotion of Indian classical and choral music, at Upasana Centre, [[Thodupuzha]].

==Personal==
Palackal hails from the family of [[Palackal Thoma Malpan]], the senior founder of the [[Carmelites of Mary Immaculate]], a monastic order which has served as a vessel to preserve many of the musical traditions of Indian Christianity, and grew up in the musical traditions of the Syro-Malabar Church. He lives in New York City.

==Further reading==
*[http://www.thecmsindia.org/palackal.html Home page at the Christian Musicological Society of India]

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	'''Joseph J. Palackal''', [[Carmelites of Mary Immaculate\|C.M.I.]] (born in [[Palackal]] family at [[Pallippuram, Alappuzha\|Pallippuram]], near [[Cherthala]] in [[Alappuzha District\|Alappuzha]], Kerala) is an Indic [[musicologist]], singer and composer, with special interests in the musical traditions of the [[Christianity in India\|Indian Christians]]. He is also the Founder-President of the Christian Musicological Society of India.		'''Joseph J. Palackal''', [[Carmelites of Mary Immaculate\|C.M.I.]] (born in [[Palackal Thoma\|Palackal]] family at [[Pallippuram, Alappuzha\|Pallippuram]], near [[Cherthala]] in [[Alappuzha District\|Alappuzha]], Kerala) is an Indic [[musicologist]], singer and composer, with special interests in the musical traditions of the [[Christianity in India\|Indian Christians]]. He is also the Founder-President of the Christian Musicological Society of India.

	==Research==		==Research==
	Palackal wrote a Master's thesis at [[Hunter College]] in 1995 on the various styles of singing the ''Puthenpaana'' [New Song], the [[Malayalam]] poem composed by the grammarian and lexicographer [[Johann Ernst Hanxleden]] (''Arnos Paathiri''), analysing the several cultural influences.<ref>{{AAT search link\|1384737\|title=Puthen Pana: A musical study}}</ref><ref>[http://thecmsindia.org/puthenpaana.txt ] {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507020224/http://thecmsindia.org/puthenpaana.txt \|date=7 May 2008 }}</ref>		Palackal wrote a Master's thesis at [[Hunter College]] in 1995 on the various styles of singing the ''Puthenpaana'' [New Song], the [[Malayalam]] poem composed by the grammarian and lexicographer [[Johann Ernst Hanxleden]] (''Arnos Paathiri''), analysing the several cultural influences.<ref>{{AAT search link\|1384737\|title=Puthen Pana: A musical study}}</ref><ref>[http://thecmsindia.org/puthenpaana.txt ] {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507020224/http://thecmsindia.org/puthenpaana.txt \|date=7 May 2008 }}</ref>

	He wrote a doctoral thesis in [[ethnomusicology]] at the [[CUNY Graduate Center\|Graduate Center]] of the [[City University of New York]] in 2005 on [[Syriac language\|Syriac]] ([[Aramaic language\|Aramaic]]) chant traditions in [[South India]], studying on the one hand the contemporary practice of model melodies of the [[Holy Qurbana of Addai and Mari\|East-Syriac/Chaldean rite]] of the [[Syro-Malabar Church]], and, on the other hand, the [[oktoechos]] of the [[West Syrian Rite\|West Syriac Rite]] of the [[Oriental Orthodoxy\|Oriental Orthodox Churches]] of South India.<ref>http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3170204</ref><ref>[http://thecmsindia.org/syriac_chants.txt ] {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507020240/http://thecmsindia.org/syriac_chants.txt \|date=7 May 2008 }}</ref>		He wrote a doctoral thesis in [[ethnomusicology]] at the [[CUNY Graduate Center\|Graduate Center]] of the [[City University of New York]] in 2005 on [[Syriac language\|Syriac]] ([[Aramaic language\|Aramaic]]) chant traditions in [[South India]], studying on the one hand the contemporary practice of model melodies of the [[Holy Qurbana of Addai and Mari\|East-Syriac/Chaldean rite]] of the [[Syro-Malabar Church]], and, on the other hand, the [[oktoechos]] of the [[West Syrian Rite\|West Syriac Rite]] of the [[Oriental Orthodoxy\|Oriental Orthodox Churches]] of South India.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3170204\|title=ProQuest Dissertations & Theses - Invalid URL}}</ref><ref>[http://thecmsindia.org/syriac_chants.txt ] {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507020240/http://thecmsindia.org/syriac_chants.txt \|date=7 May 2008 }}</ref>

	As part of this doctoral work, Palackal brought out a CD, ''Qambel Maran'',<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://thecmsindia.org/releases.html#qambel_maran \|title=Christian Musicological Society of India: Releases \|publisher=Thecmsindia.org \|date=}}</ref> a collection of [[Syriac sacral music\|Syriac chants]] in the Chaldean tradition of the Syro-Malabar Church; it includes the hymn ''Awun d'wasmayya'', i.e., the [[Lord's Prayer]] in [[Aramaic language\|Aramaic]], arguably in the same words which were used by Jesus when he taught the ''Pater Noster'', compositions by [[Ephrem the Syrian\|St. Ephrem the Syrian]] (notably the [[acrostic]] hymn ''Iso maaran m'siha'' on the name ''Iso M'siha'', i.e., [[Jesus Christ\|Jesus the Messiah]]), and the Syriac translation ''Sabbah lesan'' of the [[Latin]] hymn ''[[Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium\|Pange Lingua]]'' by [[St. Thomas Aquinas]]; these chants had up to then been preserved in the main only in [[oral tradition]]; among the singers is [[Fr. Abel\|Fr. Abel Periyappuram]], the founder of the [[Kalabhavan]] and the key in the transition of the Syro-Malabar liturgy from Syriac (Aramaic) to [[Malayalam]].		As part of this doctoral work, Palackal brought out a CD, ''Qambel Maran'',<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://thecmsindia.org/releases.html#qambel_maran \|title=Christian Musicological Society of India: Releases \|publisher=Thecmsindia.org \|date=}}</ref> a collection of [[Syriac sacral music\|Syriac chants]] in the Chaldean tradition of the Syro-Malabar Church; it includes the hymn ''Awun d'wasmayya'', i.e., the [[Lord's Prayer]] in [[Aramaic language\|Aramaic]], arguably in the same words which were used by Jesus when he taught the ''Pater Noster'', compositions by [[Ephrem the Syrian\|St. Ephrem the Syrian]] (notably the [[acrostic]] hymn ''Iso maaran m'siha'' on the name ''Iso M'siha'', i.e., [[Jesus Christ\|Jesus the Messiah]]), and the Syriac translation ''Sabbah lesan'' of the [[Latin]] hymn ''[[Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium\|Pange Lingua]]'' by [[St. Thomas Aquinas]]; these chants had up to then been preserved in the main only in [[oral tradition]]; among the singers is [[Fr. Abel\|Fr. Abel Periyappuram]], the founder of the [[Kalabhavan]] and the key in the transition of the Syro-Malabar liturgy from Syriac (Aramaic) to [[Malayalam]].
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