MUSI 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: That (Music), Dhrupad
29 Aug 2016
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Bollywood music stems from the music of india. Early times-musical compositions were all written by classical musicians. Musicians were all indian classical musicians in early bollywood films. Difference between a scale in hollywood and bollywood music. We perform tunings of the notes called shrutis-very specific tunings. A raga defined as series of melodies when played together creates the rasa of the raga. Alaap-jor-jhala: alaap- unaccompanied introduction to a raga performance-out of time, jor-pulse, jhala-faster versions of repetitive strokes. Raga-thaat (thaat is a scale classification system in hisdustani classical music) A shift from raga musicians to western influenced melodies taking over bollywood music. Alaap jhor jhala started as a vocal tradition as dhrupad music. Ajj has been carried into current instrumental tradition. In the vocal tradition they just sing short alaap now. Ajj comes from north india when we had the invasion of the mughal empire conquered the.
