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khang

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What do you hear in the music at about 3:20 that makes you know that the tanam section has started?
 
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Describe in your own words the characteristics of time and pitch including drone, melodic contour, improvisation, ornamentation/pillar tones, and phrase structure of the alapana section. (Answers should vary.)
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

 In spite of the lack of any accompanying percussion instrument or tala cycles, the music takes on a strong sense of beat . . . This is a highly rhythmic exposition of the raga.

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Time characteristics
 absence of meter
 melody made up of free-flowing rhythms that increase in speed and complexity as the section unfolds
Pitch aspects
 drone sustains tonal center and the tone a fifth above tonal center throughout entire section anchoring tonal center of composition
 the drone part stabilizes the music and balances the highly improvised melody
 melody seems to unfold through a series of improvised phrases that gradually rise from tonal center (sa) and then gradually descend back to the tonal center (sa)
 much note-bending and sliding between pitches and ornamentation of the melody
 melody frequently returns to pillar (resting/stable) tones such as sa and pa.


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