Guest guest Posted December 6, 1999 Report Share Posted December 6, 1999 Of course, the beautiful thing about this (Foxy Lady, in my opinion, is the primordial exposition) is that the sharped 9th is the minor third an octave up, hence what you're hitting is major and minor at the same time. Diabolus in musica (or almost), the sharped 4th. being, of course, technically so dubbed by Pope (of 'chants' and 'calendar' fame)... The gods as applied to the notes of raga are many, but one of the basic schemas is: do SA Bramha re RI Kartikheya mi GA Balarama fa MA Mukhundha sol PA Shiva la DHA Rama si/ti NI Kama do SA and so on The flattened notes (RI komal, Ga komal, DHA komal and NI komal) have a slightly more feminine or - conversely - ascetic feel to them, while the sharped 4th. (tivra MA) is regarded as especially martial, i. e., as having to do with Mars. The tonic is silence. The second, flat or natural, almost invariably regarded as having to do with courage or self-assurance. The other notes take their places as the mood of the raga dictates, only one note being fixed, viz., the tonic itself, and even this disappears in certain raga, or is resolved into in certain others. What makes me such a useless band member, I guess, is the fact of my often describing what I want to hear in terms of shape and colour, but I have always heard sound that way... Ahem! m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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