INDIA🛕

50 centuries

centuries of history atleast

Land of Spirituality and Philosophy

Term of India

mythology and chants to their gods, a sacred form of artistic expression

describe the Music of India

Music was a gift from God, sound is of God

According to the ancient scripts:

Vedas

religious chants without accompaniment, passed orally

Carnatic and Hindustani

2 Major Traditional Indian Music

Carnatic

devotional vocal temple music played with a small ensemble, southern part

Hindustani

instrumental north indian classical music, uses tala and is a slow elaboration of Raga

Tala

rythmic time cycle of Indian music, composed of long and short beats that are accented/unaccented

Angas

smaller rythmic patterns of India

Raga

indian word for skin or melody, a specific arrangement of tunes with 72 types of scales

that which colors the mind

Literal translation of raga

Drone

low monotonous sound continuously played, gives unity to composition and provides tonal anchor

Swaras

notes

Alankar

ornamentations

Rasa

dynamics

Pungi

double reed instrument used by snake charmers

Bansuri

transverse bamboo flute used in Hindustani music

Shruti Upanga

small reed instrument used in carnatic music to produce drone sound

Shehnai

double reed instrument with conical bore

Ghatam

clay pot instrument, played with fingers and palms

Khartal

wooden/metal hand percussion instrument

Ghungroo

small metallic bells wonr on the ankles by dancers

Jal Tarang

set of tuned ceramic.metal bowls filled with water, played with sticks

Tabla

pair of hand played drums

Mridanga

double headed drum in carnatic music

Damaru

small hourglass shaped drum

Maddale

hand played double headed drum in Yakshagana music

Rubab

bowed lute with wooden body

Ektara

spiked lute single stirng folk instrument

Sitar

long necked flute with frets with sympatheti strings

Nasal and uses Sitar

Timbre of Indian music

Harmony/Texture

Heterophonic, highly ornamented

Rythym

Elaborate metric system of indian tala

Form

Highly improvisatory, strict rythym

Melody

uses drone and raga

Gangal

known for its richr romantic land poetic content

Lakshan geet

a style oriented towards musical education

Swarmalika

used for pedagogic purposes, sargam used instead of words

Tamil Nad

songs to describe the scenic beauty of a particular region

Vijaya

bidding a person farewell song

Hymn to Shiva

song with spiritual content