MUSIC 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Carnatic Music, Samavadi, Microtonal Music

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20 Jul 2018
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Can be stressed by having ornaments: make something stressed: volume, ornamentation, duration, samvadi: second most important note. Stressed but not as much as the vadi: vivadi: are notes that should never be played. Or get the least amount of stress: there are rules about how to treat the modes during performance, musical contour: how a performer shapes a frame when its ascending or descending, ornamentation, tuning: micronotes in-between. Adjusting the fine tuning to get certain microtones: most indian tones generally use the same as the western scale, ragas have short melodies that are associated with a particular scale. And those melodies can be identified by culture: rasa means mood, ragas are played at certain times of the day, in carnatic music there is 72. Carnatic music:differences: vocal/insturments, poetry and repertoire, instruments: mrdangham, violin, terms, kritis -genere of music, type of composition by tyagara, alapanam - the same as the alap.

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