Easy: Breathing Under Water- Anoushka Shankar- 2007
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- Easy: Breathing under water- Anouska Shankar- 2007
- Structure
- Make use of traditional western structures
- John Cage Dance No.1 used traditional India structures
- McLaughlin Ma No Po in 2002 imitated Indian structure
- Verse/chorus/instrumental/introductions and coda
- Make use of traditional western structures
- Tonality
- Mixolydian starting on Db
- This is the Indian equivalent ot a Rag Khamaj
- Consistently flattened 7th
- No modulations
- Mixolydian starting on Db
- Melody
- Fusion between the traditionally Eastern complex SItar melodic lines and the vocals which are more Western in style
- Opposite to Rhaman's Jai Ho which is mainly western but is not sung in English
- There is a stylistic tension
- Opening sitar melody has a 4 bar phrase which is repeated with variations
- Pentatonic shapes
- Debussy's Pagodes uses melodies which are pentatonic in quality (1903)
- Fusion between the traditionally Eastern complex SItar melodic lines and the vocals which are more Western in style
- Texture
- The focus is on the melodic line
- The guitar plays the same style of material throughout with syncopation and an ostinato-type rhythm
- Homophonic textures strongly feature
- Some contrapuntal parts
- Very Western
- Homophonic textures strongly feature
- Very Western
- Rhythm Metre & Tempo
- Medium tempo of 84 BPM but slows down towards the end
- Syncopated accompaniment with a flexible and comlex sitar line
- Jai Ho by Raham used syncopated strings in 2009
- Harmony
- Chords are often straightforward triads with every bar containing an added note extension chord
- No progressions including the dominant chord
- Primary chords and cadences are avoided
- Some dissonance
- Sonority
- Both Indian classical conventions and Western conventions
- Vocals are in a relax Western style with a mid to low tessitura
- Synth bass used to emphasise the guitar ostinato
- Context
- Born in 1981 and her father was Ravi Shankar a famous sitar player
- Brought up in a range of countries gaining influence from them all
- Almost a collaboration between multiple artists
- Structure
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