Rag Desh

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When and during what season is the rag desh meant to be played?
at night during the rain desh
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What feeling is it meant to portray?
the feeling of romance and devoation
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How many different version of the Rag Desh do you study?
3 - one from the album "Priyagitah : The Nightingale" - Live at Carnegie Hall - Mewar Re Mira by S.S.Shandhada and H.Dhandhada
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Name the notes of the different raga?
SA-RI-MA-PA-NI-SA-NI-DHA-PA-MA-GA-RI-SA
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Priyagitah was improvised in a recording studio. Its based around the traditional raga structure but there are a few differences - what are they?
some modern ragas miss out some sections to keep the audience's attention
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The version is divided up into 3 trachs on the CD - what are they?
alap, the second two are both gats, each gats based on a different tala
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At the beginning of the alap, you can hear the tambura drone. Then the bansuri and esraji (an instrument thats quite like a sarangi but with frets) come in. They improvise using notes of the the Rag Desh. How would you describe this section?
slow and flowing - there's no pulse to drive it along
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In the next section what comes in?
the tabla, playing a steady rhythm
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The bansuri plays another improvised melody. Its a bit faster and is based on the rupak tala, which has how many beats?
seven
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In the final trach (the second gat), the raga is a lot faster. The tabla plays what?
a fast complicated rhythm using the 12-beat ektal tala.
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The bansuri plays over the top of it, but the melody is musch more what?
structured - its now playing a pre-composed melody with lots of runs. Its still based on the Rag Desh.
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Anoushka plays what instrument?
sitar
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What is the live at carnegie hall made up of?
an alap and two different gats
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In the alap, what instruments are playing?
the sitar and tambura
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how are bent notes played?
pulling the string to change the sound
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the first gat uses a 10 beat tala called what?
jhaptal
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the second gat is a bit faster and uses what?
a 16 beat tintal tala
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mewar re mira uses what to play the raga?
voice
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what instruments improvises using the notes of the raga over a tambura drone?
the sitar
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what sex is the singer and what does he use alot of?
male - vibrato - portamento. Its quite a short alap
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What increases in the next section when what comes in?
tempo - tabla
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what is a bandish?
like a gat but with a singer
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in the final section the vocal part becomes more elaborate - there are lots of what?
portamento and trills
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what instrument is also used towards the end?
hand cymbals
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name the different instruements which play the main melody in each song?
the bansuri in "Priyagitah", the sitar "Carnegie Hall" and a male singer in "Mewar re mira"
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a typical raga has how many sections?
4
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name the different sections?
alap - jhor - jhala - the gat or bandish
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describe the alap
sitar player introduces the notes of the chosen raga, improvising freely - theres no beat or pulse to the melody at this point - it just flows along. The accompaniment at this point is the tambura drone
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describe the jhor
the music speeds up a bit - its still the tambura player and sitar player but the music gets more rhythmic and the melody improvised by the sitar player takes on a steady beat
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describe the jhala
this section is alot faster than the alap and jhor and feels alot more exciting than the bits that came before, the players improvise around the melody
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describe the gat
in the gat, the raga really takes off - the tabla player come is - the groups plays a pre-composed piece. Its called a gat if its for instruments only, and a bandish if there's a song - the players also add improvisations to the gat or bandish + q+a
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