![]() Now this becomes a simple process of choosing 1 each of R G M D N to form a melakartha along with the S and P. They are arranged on the 12 swarasthanas on a overlapping scale as follows. We will denote the variations using subscripts 1,2 or 3. M or madhyama has 2 variations, R, G, D, N have 3 variations each, S and P are fixed notes. Each of the swarasthana is a variation of the 7 fundamental notes. You will notice that there are 12 keys (7 white and 5 black). Well, the 7 notes are not just limited to 7 frequencies but to variations between them.Ĭonsider one octave from the above image, that is from one C to another C. This begs a question, if there are only 7 notes (from our earlier lecture, we saw that there were 7 notes S R G M P D N) then how many melakartha can be there? For a raga to be termed as Melakartha raga, it has to be a sampoorna raga (i.e., has all the 7 swaras appearing once and only once and in the same order both in aarohana and avarohana). ![]() ![]() The fundamental classification of ragas are as Melakartha ragas and Janya ragas.
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