HMU111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tabla Beat Science, Bandish, Talvin Singh
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The social status of musicians: the case of tabla players in north india. Set of two drums, one made of metal, the other wood. Complex skins with black spots on top of drum. Black dot made of powdered iron, focuses vibrations to produce different tones. Onomatopoeic (phonetically imitates sound it describes: na, ti, tete, tirakita, tu (right drum, different accents with different positionings, ghe, kat (left drum bass, dha, dhiradhira, titakatagadigana (combinations) Used in learning and performance oral notation. General = organization of events in time. Specific = organization of duration (how the relative durations of musical events function to organize a piece of music) Alap improvised opening section of hindustani performance (organized around pulse) Predictable pattern of stress (common 3/4, 4/4) Stress hierarchy of 4/4: one two three four. Compound metres (contain triplet divisions within the beat, e. g. 6/8 as both 123. Additive metres irregular (smaller units of different lengths added to form longer, regularly recurring patterns)
