EASIA224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dastgah, Swara, Tabla
25 Oct 2015
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Gushes: short melody (written in a specific maye) Dastgah: long series of gushes (also identified by maye) cadence note series of ideas pardes- scale (persian) Uyghur transmission: orally, dying out but revived in 1949 using notation, being canonized by chinese government. Svara: note in carnatic music scale, can be tiny collection of pitches (pitch can waver); movement from one svara to another can be done by sliding rather than stepwise movement. Raga: melodic mode in indian classical music; orally transmitted, cannot be written down; is associated with different emotions in carnatic music, all ragas are related to a melakarta, or parent scale. Tala: indian rhythm pattern cycles, usually played on the tabla (hindustani) or mridangam (carnatic) Hindustani music: northern indian music that uses expansive improvisation, speeds up as the song progresses, sitar is the melodic instrument and tabla the percussion, has influences from both hinduism and islam.
