How many notes are there in a basic parent or mother scale ...

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How many notes are there in a basic parent or mother scale (melakarta) to which all ragas relate?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Study the definition of raga carefully in WOM and use it to define raga.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer to Question 1

 seven

Answer to Question 2

 from the Sanskrit word for coloring, dyeing, tingeing or that which colors the mind and the heart . . . an expressive entity with a musical personality' all its own . . .
 in part technicala collection of notes, a scale, intonation, ornaments, resting or pillar tones, and so on.
 a portfolio of characteristic musical gestures and phrasesbits and pieces of a melodythat give it a distinct and recognizable identity.
 Each raga has its rules about how a musician may move from one note to another and particular ways of ornamenting certain notes . . . But apart from its scale a raga cannot be written down; it is part of the oral tradition.
 Thus raga refers to an entire complex system for creating classical Indian melodies.

• Particular ragas have specific extra-musical associations, such as being related to various human emotions, different colors or animals or deities, etc.

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