Rag Desh

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Rag Desh

For Music GCSE Edexcel you are required to know three different versions of the piece 'Rag Desh'.

The Rag

The Rag can be one of three things: the mood, the scale or the title. There are many hundreds of different rags. Rag Desh is the monsoon raga.

This is the Rag or scale for Rag Desh in standard notation.

Instrumentation

The Sitar- It is a plucked string instrument which as you may have guessed is played sitting down.

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