Alap
Indian Classical Music
Tilos Radio - Budapest
Sunday 11.30-13.30 CET

LIVE concerts at Tilos Radio:

Pandit Vinod Lele -  Tabla

Tintala solo

08.11.2009.

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Dr. Kamala Shankar - Shankar-guitar
Pandit Vinod Lele
-  Tabla

Raga Bilaskhani Todi

08.11.2009.

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Pandit Rajeev Janardan - Sitar
Pandit Vinod Lele - Tabla

Raga Madhuvanti

06.11.2009.

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Akash Sergey - Sarod

Raga Bhairavi

28.10.2007.

Prabhu Edouard - tabla

Tintala solo

30.04.2006.

Rajeev Janardan - sitar
Pundlik Bhagwat - tabla

Raga Bageshri

18.10.2005

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.

bansuri santur rudra-vina sarangi szitár szitár
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.

tintala (16)
ektala (12)
adachautala (14)

 

 

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
Listen carefully!