The Rāgs of North Indian Music: Their Structure and EvolutionThis book explores important features of Indian classical modes: the structure of melody, the effect of the drone, ornamentation and intonation, the function of accidentals and the perception of symmetries. These are related to a well-documented survey of the evolutionary processes that hae shaped the rags of today. |
Contents
Preface | 11 |
An Outline of PresentDay North Indian Classical | 27 |
That | 46 |
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The Rāgs of North Indian Music: Their Structure and Evolution Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Limited preview - 1995 |
The Rāgs of North Indian Music: Their Structure and Evolution Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy No preview available - 1971 |
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accompanying record alternative notes appears Āsāvri ascending disjunct tetrachords ascending note augmented Bhairav Bhairav ṭhāṭ Bhatkhande Bhatkhaṇḍe's Bilāval ṭhāṭ characteristic Circle of Thāts consonant Darbāri descending conjunct tetrachords descending line Dha Nib Dhab discussed dissonant example fifth Ga Ma Pa ground-note heptatonic hexatonic hexatonic rāgs important notes Indian classical music Indian music indicated instance intervals intonation jātis Kalyāṇ ṭhāṭ Khamāj ṭhāṭ Khan's Lalit leading note Locana's Mālkoś Mārvā ṭhāṭ minor third mode modern musical theory musicians Nib Dha North Indian classical notations oblique movement occurs octave omission order balance note Pa Dha Ni parent scales pentatonic rāg pentatonic scales perfect fourth phrase prominent Pūrvi rāg rāg Mārvā rāgas Reb Gab Sa Pa Sa Re Ga Sa-Pa samvādi Sanskrit scalar secondary drone semitone songs śruti sthāyi suddh tāl terminal note ṭhāṭ Tilak Kāmod Tori tradition transilience unbalanced upper tetrachord vādī Vilayat Khan wholetone Yaman