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Sargam (from SA-RE-GA-MA), a technique for the teaching of sight-singing, is the Hindustani or North Indian equivalent to the western solfege. Sargam is practiced against a drone and the emphasis is not on the scale but on the intervals, thus it may be considered just intonation. The same notes are also used in South Indian Carnatic music.
Sargam refers to singing the notes, mostly commonly used in Indian music, instead of the words of a composition, with use of various ornamentations such as meend, gamak, kan and khatka, as part of a khyal performance. This is generally done in medium-tempo as a bridge between the alap and taan portions.
These two notes are known as achala swar ('fixed notes'). Each of the other five notes, Re, Ga, ma, Dha and Ni, can take a 'regular' ( shuddha ) pitch, which is equivalent to its pitch in a standard major scale (thus, shuddha Re , the second degree of the scale, is a whole-step higher than Sa), or an altered pitch, either a half-step above or ...
Raga Jaunpuri is a rāga in Hindustani classical music in the Asavari thaat.Some musicians like Omkarnath Thakur consider it indistinguishable from the shuddha rishabh Asavari. [2]
Each sruti or micro tonal interval has a definite character; the names manda, candovati, dayavati, ranjani, raudri, krodha, ugra or khsobhini denote their emotional quality which dwells in combination or singly in the notes of the modal scale: thus, dayavati, ranjani and ratika dwell in the gandhara and each of the notes ( swara) of the scale in its turn has its own kind of expression and ...
Hamsadhvani's notes when shifted using Graha bhedam, yields another pentatonic rāgam, Nagasvaravali. Graha bhedam is the step taken in keeping the relative note frequencies same, while shifting the shadjam to the next note in the rāgam. For more details and illustration of this concept refer Graha bhedam on Hamsadhvani.
Sargam (music), singing the notes of a musical composition Sargam notes, the notes sung this way. Sargam, a 1950 Indian Hindi-language family drama film by P.L. Santoshi; Sargam, a 1979 Indian Hindi-language film by Kasinathuni Vishwanath, starring Rishi Kapoor and Jayapradha; Sargam, a 1992 Indian Malayalam-language film by Hariharan, starring ...
Brihaddeshi is a Classical Sanskrit text, dated ca. 6th to 8th century CE, on Indian classical music, attributed to Mataṅga Muni.It is the first text to speak directly of the raga and to distinguish marga ("classical") from desi ("folk") music.