The Rāgs of North Indian Music: Their Structure and Evolution

Jairazbhoy, N. A. (1971). The Rāgs of North Indian Music: Their Structure and Evolution: Their Structure and Evolution.

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1971

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  • Throughout a raga performance a tanpura sounds an unbroken drone on the tonic (Sa) and typically the fifth (Pa), providing a fixed pitch-ground that never changes while the soloist's melodic line explores the raga — ascending, descending, bending microtonally away from and back toward those anchor pitches

    This sourceThe tanpura's unbroken drone on Sa and usually Pa as the fixed pitch-ground against which raga melody is heard as departure and return.

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