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Indian musc - Coggle Diagram
Indian musc
Folk music of Rajasthan
Three main playing strings that are typically tuned to tonic, fifth and octave. Strings arent fretted.
Murli - wind instrument occasionally used by Mahganiyas for melodic accompaniment and solo performance
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Algoza - Constructed from two joined wooden flutes - one used to play melody, whilst second longer pipe is sounded as a drone.
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Musical features
performance context
Rising urban middle class became patron of classical music with the decline of the court by the nineteenth century
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Classical music was heard in many places especially urban centres and cities. But was only in court and temples in the past
Religious songs and chants to hindi film songs can be heard in temples, shops, households and on public transport.
Formal structure
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As performance progresses, soloist speeds up climaxing with repeated striking of drone (chikari) strings in between other pitches. This section. Jhala concludes the performance
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Soloist elaborates composition with ornamentations, melodic expansions and improvisation
Entry of table drums introducing tala metrical cycle, fixed composition (gat) begins
Jor - Is introduces as playing progresses, music becomes more rhythmic, pulse is felt.
Alap - Before composition is played, performer plays slow, non-metric and freely improvised section called
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Rag - Scale having five notes or more in ascending and descending format. Rag. comprises recurring motivic melodic movements and strong tonal centres. Ragas have extra musical associations such as moods, time of day or season of year
Tala
Instrumentalists have good knowledge of structure of different talas. So has to be able to come in on first beat with drummer
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- Rhythmical pattern or phrase hand gestures sequence marking division of cycle
Scale.mode/melody
Note ma can be sharpened, producing tivra ma, resulting in 12 tones in an octave
Notes ri, ga, dha and ni can be flatenned.
Tonic - Sa first degree is relative and can be pitched anywhere. Vocalist or instrumentalist decides what pitch to start with Sa
Pitches in indian scale can also be altered. Except for first degree (Sa) and fifth degree (Pa), tonic and dominant. as they are pure
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