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Hindol
Hindol is a Hindustani classical music, Hindustani classical ''raga'' from the Kalyan Thaat. According to Indian classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj, Hindol is an ancient raga associated with the spring season and is sung during the first part of the day. Origin The raga emerges from Kalyan (thaat), Kalyan Thaat. It is an ancient ''raga'' associated with the spring season. Technical description Arohana The Arohana has 7 notes. Sa Ga Ma# Dha Ni Dha Sa. Avarohana The Avarohana has five notes. Sa Ni Dha Ma# Ga Sa. Re and Pa are not used. The only ''Teevra'' note used is Ma (henceforth represented by Ma#). All other ''swaras'' are ''shuddha''. Pakad Sa Ga Ma# Dha Ni Dha Ma# Ga Sa. The ''Vadi (music), vadi swara'' is Dha, and the ''samvadi'' is Ga. Jati Audhva – Audhav Samay (time) The raga is to be sung or played on an instrument such as ''veena'', ''sitar'', ''sehnai'', flute, etc., during the first part of the day. Further information The raga has Teevra ...
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Raga
A raga ( ; , ; ) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a musical mode, melodic mode. It is central to classical Indian music. Each raga consists of an array of melodic structures with musical motifs; and, from the perspective of the Indian tradition, the resulting music has the ability to "colour the mind" as it engages the emotions of the audience. Each raga provides the musician with a musical framework within which to improvise. Improvisation by the musician involves creating sequences of notes allowed by the raga in keeping with rules specific to the raga. Ragas range from small ragas like Bahar (raga), Bahar and Sahana (raga), Sahana that are not much more than songs to big ragas like Malkauns, Darbari and Yaman (raga), Yaman, which have great scope for improvisation and for which performances can last over an hour. Ragas may change over time, with an example being Marwa (raga), Marwa, the primary development of which has been going down ...
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Kalyan (thaat)
Kalyan () is one of the ten basic Thaats of the Hindustani music, Hindustani classical music of the Indian subcontinent. It is also the name of a raga, Raag (now more popularly known as Yaman (raga), Raag Yaman) within this very Thaat. Description The Kalyan Thaat consists of an important group of early afternoon, late evening, early night, and early morning ragas. Characterised by the Teevr Madhyam (M') in the stead of the standard Madhyam, Shuddh Madhyam of the Bilaval (thaat), Bilawal Thaat, the name of this Thaat literally means good luck/ fortune (कल्याण). Raags of this Thaat are considered to be a blessing-seeking and soothing. As a result, they are often performed in the evening or at the beginning of a concert. These Raags create the feeling of the unfolding of an evening or good fortune. The Hindustani Classical Thaats are defined in their relation with the Bilawal Thaat, which has all shuddha (pure) notes. Raags Some Raags in the Kalyan Thaat: * Yaman ...
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Kalyan Thaat
Kalyan () is one of the ten basic Thaats of the Hindustani classical music of the Indian subcontinent. It is also the name of a Raag Raag may refer to: * Raga, a melodic framework in Indian classical music * ''Raag'' (film), a 2014 Assamese-language drama film * Raag (surname) * Radio Amateur Association of Greece * Right-angled Artin group In Euclidean geometry, an angle ... (now more popularly known as Raag Yaman) within this very Thaat. Description The Kalyan Thaat consists of an important group of early afternoon, late evening, early night, and early morning ragas. Characterised by the Teevr Madhyam (M') in the stead of the standard Shuddh Madhyam of the Bilawal Thaat, the name of this Thaat literally means good luck/ fortune (कल्याण). Raags of this Thaat are considered to be a blessing-seeking and soothing. As a result, they are often performed in the evening or at the beginning of a concert. These Raags create the feeling of the unfolding of an evenin ...
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Gamak
Gamaka (Hindi: / Urdu: ) (also spelled gamakam) refer to ornamentation that is used in the performance of North and South Indian classical music. Gamaka can be understood as embellishment done on a note or between two notes. Present-day Carnatic music uses at least fifteen different kinds of ornamentation. Gamaka is any graceful turn, curve or cornering touch given to a single note or a group of notes, which adds emphasis to each raga's individuality. ''Gamaka can be understood as any movement done on a note or in between two notes.'' The unique character of each raga is given by its gamakas, making their role essential rather than decorative in Indian music. Nearly all Indian musical treatises have a section dedicated to describing, listing and characterising gamakas. The term ''gamaka'' itself means "ornamented note" in Sanskrit. Gamakas involve the variation of pitch of a note, using oscillations or glides between notes. Each raga has specific rules on the types of gamakas ...
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Spring (season)
Spring, also known as springtime, is one of the four temperate seasons, succeeding winter and preceding summer. There are various technical definitions of spring, but local usage of the term varies according to local climate, cultures and customs. When it is spring in the Northern Hemisphere, it is autumn in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. At the spring equinox, also called the vernal equinox, Daytime (astronomy), days and nights are approximately twelve hours long, with daytime length increasing and nighttime length decreasing as the season progresses until the summer solstice. The spring equinox is in March in the Northern Hemisphere and in September in the Southern Hemisphere, while the summer solstice is in June in the Northern Hemisphere and in December in the Southern Hemisphere. Spring and "springtime" refer to the season, and also to ideas of rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection and regrowth. Subtropical and tropical areas have climates better described ...
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Hindustani Classical Music
Hindustani classical music is the Indian classical music, classical music of the Indian subcontinent's northern regions. It may also be called North Indian classical music or ''Uttar Bhartiya shastriya sangeet''. The term ''shastriya sangeet'' literally means classical music, and is also used to refer to Indian classical music in general. It is played on instruments like the veena, sitar and sarod. It diverged in the 12th century Common Era, CE from Carnatic music, the classical tradition of Southern India. While Carnatic music largely uses compositions written in Sanskrit, Telugu language, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil language, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindustani music largely uses compositions written in Hindi, Urdu, Braj Bhasha, Braj, Awadhi language, Avadhi, Bhojpuri language, Bhojpuri, Bengali language, Bengali, Rajasthani languages, Rajasthani, Marathi language, Marathi and Punjabi language, Punjabi. Knowledge of Hindustani classical music is taught through a network of classical musi ...
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Pandit Jasraj
Pandit Jasraj (28 January 1930  – 17 August 2020) was an Indian classical vocalist, belonging to the ''Mewati gharana'' (musical apprenticeship lineage). His musical career spanned 75 years resulting in national and international fame, respect and numerous major awards and accolades. His legacy includes memorable performances of classical and semi-classical vocal music, classical and devotional music, albums and film soundtracks, innovations in various genres including '' Haveli Sangeet'' and popularizing the ''Mewati Gharana'' – a school of thought in Hindustani classical music. Pandit Jasraj taught music to amateur and professional students in India, Europe, Canada and the United States. Early life Pandit Jasraj was born on 28 January 1930 in Pili Mandori, a village in the then Hisar district (now in Fatehabad district) of Haryana, in an artistic Brahmin family to Pandit Motiram, a classical singer and Krishna Bai. He was the youngest of three sons, in a family o ...
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Vadi (music)
Vadi, in both Hindustani classical music and Carnatic music, is the tonic (root) swara (musical note) of a given raga (musical scale). "Vadi is the most sonant or most important note of a Raga."Nad Understanding Raga Music, Bagchee, Sandeep References

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Samvadi
The samavadi or samvadi is the second-most prominent (though not necessarily second-most played) note of a raga in Indian classical music. The primary note of the raga is the ''Vadi (Hindustani classical music), vadi''; the vadi and samavadi are in most cases a Perfect fourth, fourth or fifth (interval), fifth apart. A ''samavadi'' is a note of special significance. ''Vadi'' is often translated as the "king" note of a raga, while the ''samavadi'' is translated as the "prime minister" or "vizier" note. A performer will typically try to emphasize the ''samavadi'' along with the vadi when improvising on a certain raga. The ''vadi'' and ''samavadi'' can be crucial in defining the raga at hand, and in some cases two ragas with the same arohana and avrohana can be distinguished only by the prominence of their sonant and consonant notes. References

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Khayal
Khyal or Khayal (ख़याल / خیال) is a major form of Hindustani classical music in the Indian subcontinent. Its name comes from a Persian language, Persian/Arabic language, Arabic word meaning "imagination". Khyal is associated with romantic poetry, and allows the performer greater freedom of expression than dhrupad and is sung with the tabla instead of the pakhavaj. In khyal, ragas are extensively ornamented, and the style calls for more technical virtuosity. Etymology () is an Urdu word of Arabic origin which means "imagination, thought, ideation, meditation, reflection". Hence khyal connotes the idea of a song that is imaginative and creative in either its nature or execution. The word entered India through the medium of the Persian language, Persian language. Just as the word reflects ideas of imagination and imaginative composition, the musical form is imaginative in conception, artistic and decorative in execution and romantic in appeal.Francis Joseph Steingass� ...
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Dhamar (music)
Dhamar is one of the talas used in Hindustani classical music from the Indian subcontinent. It is associated with the dhrupad style and typically played on the pakhawaj and also tabla. Dhamar taal has 14 beats (''matra''s) grouped asymmetrically into a 5-2-3-4 pattern. A song in dhrupad style set to dhamar tala is also called a dhamar. The text of a dhamar concerns the antics of Krishna teasing the milkmaids during the ''Holi Holi () is a major Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love and Spring.The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) p. 874 "Holi /'həʊli:/ noun a Hindu spring festival ...".Yudit Greenberg, Encyclopedia of Love in World ...'' (''hori'') Spring Festival of colours. It is considered a relatively light, gentle, and romantic musical form. The ''theka'' or syllabic pattern of dhamar tala is: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 क ध्धि ट धि ट धा ऽ ग त ...
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