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Rag Desh: Anoushka Shankar
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- 1General KnowledgeAnoushka Shankar - Famous sitar player
Daughter of famous Indian musician Ravi Shankar
Recorded live 2001 - concert in New York - 2InstrumentationSitar: plucked string instrument - long neck
Seven main strings - play melody
Also 12 sympathetic strings - create 'shimmering'
Tabla: Pair of drums
Dayan - right one, smaller, higher pitch, wood
Bayan - left one, larger, lower pitch, made of metal, played with fingers - 3RhythmThis version of Rag Desh uses TWO tals:
Jhaptal - 10 beat cycle (2+3+2+3)
Tintal - 16 beat cycle (4+4+4+4) - 4Structure AlapFor sitar only, slow and no regular pulse, introduces notes and mood of the rag, melodic line decorated with slides and pitch bends (meends)
- 5Structure GatTabla enters after few seconds, sitar plays a fixed composition (gat) in moderate tempo
Sitar and tabla improvised - sitar based on gat and tabla on tal.
Improvs end with a tihai - short melody or rhythm three times which ends on the sam
Towards the end of this section, the tempo increases - 6Structure JhallaMusic is fast and sitar strings strummed to create rhythmic excitement
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