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Anoushka Shankar - Coggle Diagram

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        Anouska Shankar created her music through improvisational sessions with her and Kale. These sessions generated the roots for her melodies and riffs and she regularly uses her skills to improvise melodies throughout the album. You can see this in the introduction to "Burn" where a north Indian classical melody is improvised before the electronic instruments come in
        
        Wider Listening: Ravi Shankar's Three ragas. This is a clear example of north Indian classical music and shows the skill of improvisation and its roots in the culture
        
        Improvisation is also used throughout "Breathing under water"
    - - Shankar uses set melodies throughout the piece to create a more western melody played on sitar, this embeds the fusion between the two cultures playing one instruments style on another. These western style riffs can be heard in "Easy" where they are used to sound more like a western song
        
        Wider Listening: An example of this can be found in "Norwegian Wood" where the sitar plays western guitar riffs.
    - - Shankar uses lots of ornamentations throughout her melody lines to create the traditional North Indian style. These include pitch bending, acciaccaturas and playing in the different registers called (Tar Saphak, Mandra Saphak)
        
        Wider Listening:Ornamentations can be seen on Ravi Shankar's "Symphony" where traditional North Indian sitar Ornamentations can be heard
  - - - Wider Listening "Sea Dreamer" by Anoushka Shankar and Sting also uses western syllabic melodies to create a western contrast
  - - - Wider Listening: Countermelodies can also be seen in "Together" by Singh and Kumar. They use strings and other western instruments to counter the sitar and create a fusion
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        To compare the harmonies and timbres between Indian and Western pop, listen to 'Jai Ho', a collaboration between A.R. Rahman and The Pussycat Dolls.
        
        For an example of static harmony combined with complex, developing rhythm and melody, you can listen to 'Lasya' (2014) by Anoushka Shankar.
        
        For a rising, repeated chord progression similar to that found in 'Easy', listen to John Mayer's cover of 'Free Falling' (2008)
- - - - To compare the fully realized pop version of 'Breathing Under Water' and 'Sea Dreamer' against each other, you can listen to 'Sea Dreamer' from the same album, which features Sting on lead vocals