Rag Desh
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?- Created by: Megan Parker
- Created on: 23-05-13 20:57
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- Rag Desh
- Key Features
- Melody
- Rag - pattern of notes
- Rag -associated with late evening and monsoon season
- Rhythm
- Tal - rhythmic pattern played on drum
- Repeated cycle of beats
- First beat called the sam - often stressed
- Structure
- Alap
- Slow introduction
- Notes and mood of rag introduced
- No pulse, no percussion
- Gat
- Fixed composition - improvised by solo instrument
- Percussion enters
- Clear pulse
- Jhalla
- Fast
- Becomes more decorative
- Alap
- Three layers - melodic line - solo instrument/ rhythmic pattern - drums/ drone - stringed instrument
- Melody
- Annoushka Shankar
- 2001
- Sitar
- Plucked string instrument
- Tabla
- Pair of drums
- Tal
- Jhaptal - 10 beat cycle
- Tintal - 16 beat cycle
- Structure
- Alap
- Sitar only
- Slow, no pulse
- Sitar - introduces note and mood of rag
- Decorated with slides and pitch bends
- Gat
- Tabla enters
- Sitar improvises
- Ends on tihai - short melody/ rhythm plaed 3 times
- Tempo increases towards end
- Jhalla
- Fast
- Sitar is strummed
- Alap
- Chiranji Lal Tanwar
- 2004
- Singer
- Instruments
- Sarod - plucked string
- Saranji - bowed string
- Pakhawaja - long drum
- Tabla
- Small cymbals
- Rhythm
- Keherwa tal - 8 beat cycle
- structure
- Alap
- Saranji and voice introduce notes
- slow, no pulse
- Bhajan
- Tabla joins
- Sung verse - melismas, ornaments
- Short solos - saranji, sarod
- Alap
- Steve Gorn and Benjy Wertheimer
- 2004
- Instruments
- Bansuri - bamboo flute
- Esraj - bowed string
- Shruti Box - electronic
- Swarmandel - plucked string
- Tabla
- Rhythm
- Rupak - 7 beat cycle
- Ekatal - 12 beat cycle
- Structure
- Alap
- Starts with drone
- Bansuri - introduces notes and mood of rag
- Esraj takes over
- Slow, no pulse
- Gat 1
- Slow
- Bansuri solo
- Tabla enters, then improvises
- Ends on tihai
- Gat 2
- Fast
- Tabla solo
- Improvisation more elaborate
- End with 3 tihais
- Bansuri plays tans - fast scales
- Alap
- Key Features
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