Define raga. What will be an ideal response? ...

[washai]

Define raga.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The pitch aspectmelodyof this selection
 
  a. contains many repeated notes.
  b. avoids repeating notes.
  c. avoids pitch-bending/gliding.
  d. is played from printed music.

[Carissamariew]

Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
Answers will vary.

 From the Sanskrit word for coloring, dyeing, tingeing or that which colors the mind.
 A kind of expressive entity with a musical personality all its own, a portfolio of characteristic musical gestures and phrases.
 A collection of notes, a scale, intonation, ornaments, pillar tones (usually the tonal center, sa, and the tone a perfect fifth above the tonal center, pa). The basic parent/mother scale of a raga has seven tonessa, ri, ga, ma, pa, da, ni. By varying the scale degrees of ri, ga, ma, da, or ni, up to seventy-two different raga scales can be produced.

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
a

[washai]

YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

[helenmarkerine]

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