“The notion of a Raag (Raga) is at the foundation of Indian Classical nusic … a Raag uniquely defines a set of musical notes and their allowed arrangements to form melodies to evoke certain emotions,” (IndianClassicalMusic.com). “In Sanskrit, a Raag means ‘something that colors your mind.’ … Ancient scriptures define a Raag as a composition of sounds capable of bringing joy to the human heart while attaining beauty through specific movements of notes and phrases.”
From first-time contributor Warren S.: “This ‘raga mala’ (1986) is sung by the veteran vocalist Jitendra Abisheki. The shifts from one raga (generative scale) to the next are noted on screen. Interestingly, the song text itself references the name of each raga, literally describing what the music is doing.
To an outside listener it all sounds very similar — to which I’ll just note that a musically uneducated listener hearing key changes will have the same ‘something changed, but I don’t know what’ response.”
Many thanks to Warren for submitting this piece. It presents a musical shift which runs along a different, yet closely related, axis from the Western key changes that are our regular focus.
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