dr. Kamala Shankar - Shankar-guitar Pundlik Bhagwat - Tabla
Raga Shyam Kalyan
18.10.2005
Sudeshna
Bhattacharya - Sarod Péter Szalai - Tabla
Raga Gujari Todi
26.12.2004.
Most
people can naturally recognise Indian music, an Indian
musician playing or even an Indian instrument. This is
not without a reason. If you listen carefully this program
week after week you could easily find out this reason.
But you can win more!
What
I can offer to you:
You
will be able to make differences between these instruments:
sitar, santur, tabla, rudra-vina, sarangi etc.
tala
rhythmic circle, characterised by a recurring pattern
of subdivisions (minimum 3 maximum 108 beats)
Here
you can listen to a few talas, in 4-4 circles.
You
can easily use the following terms: raga, thumri, alap,
gat, jhala, tala, that.
You
can recognize the different scaling systems of the Indian
music.
that
Classification scale, ascending and descending series
of notes.
kalyan
that (Raga Yaman)
bhairav
that (Raga Bhairav)
asawari
that (Raga Darbari)
This
that contains microtones!
Indian
music is polyrhythmic, so you can learn how to count up
to 16 on one hand (and with this skill you can easily
follow most of the performances). As the picture shows,
put the fingertip of your thumb to the bend and joint
by joint jump with it towards the end of your fingers.
This is the right-hand version of counting. There is also
a left-hand version starting from the join of the second
finger and goes towards the tip of the little finger.
When
you are chatting with your friends, you will use names of
fantastic musicians like
Rajeev Janardan, Dr. Kamala Shankar, Balaram Pathak, Imrat
Khan, Kumar Gandharva, Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Zakir
Hussain, Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, or even Balamuralikrishna.
A
few facts for meditating on:
the
raga has a name not a title
Indian
classical music has endured in a basically unchanged
form for 2000 years
Indian classical music and European classical music
are essentially different
