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  2. Bhinna Shadja - Wikipedia

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    Bhinna Shadja is a raga of Hindustani classical music belonging to the Bilaval Thaat (Melakarta No. 29 Dheerashankarabharanam). It contains five Shuddha Swaras: Shadaja, Gandhar, Madhyama, Dhaivata, and Nishad. Rishabh and Pancham are omitted. In the form of notation it contains S, G, M, D and N.

  3. Shadja - Wikipedia

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    Ragas where Sa is the Vadi svara - Raga Malkauns, etc. Ragas where Sa is the Samvadi svara - Raga Kedar. Hypothetically speaking, Shadaj is said to be the Sakar Bhrama , Sakar Bhrama as in the three main gods, Bhrama, Vishnu and Shiva. Sa is made the acronym of Sakar for showing the importance of the syllable Sa. [4]

  4. Vatapi Ganapatim - Wikipedia

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    The hymn is composed in Hamsadhvani raga (musical mode); however, in tradition of kritis, individual performers add their own variations in the tune as a part of improvisation. Vatapi Ganapatim is considered the best-known piece of Muthuswami Dikshitar and is one of the most popular compositions of Carnatic music (South Indian classical music ...

  5. Saptak - Wikipedia

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    It denotes the set of swaras i.e. Shadja (Sa), Rishabha (Ri), Gāndhāra (Ga), Madhyama (Ma), Panchama (Pa), Dhaivat (Dha), Nishada (Ni), Shadja (Sa) which comprise a musical scale in Indian classical music. In Sanskrit, saptak literally means "containing seven" and is derived from the Sanskrit word Sapta which means "seven".

  6. Carnatic raga - Wikipedia

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    When learning a raga, it is never enough just to know the basic scale of the raga. Different ragas can sometimes have the same scales. For example, the raga pairs Bhairavi and Manji , Mayamalavagowla and Nadanamakriya , Bilahari and Mand , Shankarabharanam and Kurinji , among others, have exactly the same scale, but are clearly distinct ragas ...

  7. Raga - Wikipedia

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    Every raga has a svara (a note or named pitch) called shadja, or adhara sadja, whose pitch may be chosen arbitrarily by the performer. This is taken to mark the beginning and end of the saptak (loosely, octave). The raga also contains an adhista, which is either the svara Ma or the svara Pa.

  8. Madhyam - Wikipedia

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    Breaking the word Shadja yields Shad And Ja. It means that Shad is six and ja is 'giving birth' in Marathi. [3] So basically the translation is : षड् - 6, ज -जन्म . Therefore, it collectively means giving birth to the other six notes of the music. So the svara Ma is formed from Shadja. There are 4 Shruti's of Madhyam. Previously ...

  9. Nishada (svara) - Wikipedia

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    When we break the word Shadja then we get, Shad And Ja. It means that Shad is 6 and ja is 'giving birth' in Marathi. [4] So basically the translation is : षड् - 6, ज -जन्म . Therefore, it collectively means giving birth to the other six notes of the music. So the svara Ni is formed from Shadja. The frequency of Nishada is 450 Hz.