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29 Cards in this Set
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Name the three layers Indian Music is built on |
- Melodic line played by solo instrument
- Rhythmic backing provided by tabla - Drone played on a stringed instrument |
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What is a raag (thaat)? |
Scale of notes |
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What time & season is Raag Desh associated with? |
Evening Time & Monsoon Season |
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What is a tal? |
Cycle of beats |
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Features of the Alaap Section? |
- Slow & meditative tempo - Unmetered, free-time metre - Musician explores scale - No percussion - No regular pulse |
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Features of Gat Section? |
- Based on fixed composition - Pulse introduced (tabla starts playing tal) - Percussion enters |
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Features of Jhalla Section |
- Melody becomes fast - Musical playing becomes decorated and virtuosic |
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Anoushka Shankar: Instrumentation |
- Sitar (MAIN) - Tabla - |
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Left Tabla called what? Right Tabla? What are they made of? |
Dayan - Left - made of wood Bayan - Right - made of metal |
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A.S. : Taals used? |
Tintal (16 beats) Jhaptal (10 beats) |
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A.S. : What instrument plays in the Alaap? Which musical skill is used in this section? |
Sitar plays. Meends and decorations are used |
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A.S. : How does Gat section end? |
With tihai (played three times) |
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Chinarji Lal Tanwar: Instrumentation? |
- Voice - Sarod (violin-like instrument) - Sarangi - Pakwhaj - Tabla - Small cymbals (pair) |
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C.L.T: Taal used? |
Kharba (Kherwa) |
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C.L.T: What plays in alaap? |
Sarangi & voice |
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C.L.T: What is a bhajan? |
Hindu devotional song |
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C.L.T: What happens in the Bhajan section? |
- Tabla enters - Sung verse followed by solos of sarong and sarod - Important words decorated with melismas and ornaments |
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Steve Gorn / Benjy Wertheimer: Instrumentation? |
- Bansuri - Esraj - Tambura - Tabla |
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S.G. & B.W. : Taals used? |
- Rupak (7 beats) - Ektal (12 beats) |
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S.G. & B.W. : Drone notes used in alaap? |
D & A |
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S.G. & B.W. : Which instrument introduces notes of the raag? |
Bansuri |
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S.G. & B.W. : What takes over after Bansuri introduces notes of the raag? |
Esraj |
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S.G. & B.W. : Gat 1 - Taal? |
Slow gat in rupak |
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S.G. & B.W. : How does Gat 1 begin? |
Solo - bansori |
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S.G. & B.W. : How does Gat 1 go? |
- Bansuri plays composed gat - Bansuri and tabla improvise - Finishes with a tihai |
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S.G. & B.W. : Gat 2 - Taal? |
Fast gat in ekatal |
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S.G. & B.W. : How does Gat 2 begin? |
Tabla Solo |
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S.G. & B.W. : What does Bansori play in Gat 2? |
Tans (scale-like flourishes) |
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S.G. & B.W. : How does Gat 2 finish? |
Tehai (played three times) |
