Making Thaats with Tetrachords Part III |
Making the next 16 Thaats with 8 Tetrachords:In the last post, we put together our 8 Tetrachords and figured that there are 16 available combinations. That made our first 16 Thaats. Now to make the n...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:44:00 GMT |
Making Thaats with Tetrachords Part II |
Making The First 16 Thaats with 8 Tetrachords:
In the last post we saw that there are 4 poorvang Tetrachords and 4 Utrang Tetrachords.
By combining the upper and the lower Tetrachords, we can get 16 ...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:53:00 GMT |
Making Thaats with Tetrachords Part I |
In the last post, we looked at eight Tetrachords. As I mentioned in that post, these Tetrachords are holding the key to all musical scales. How easy is it? Just memorize eight groups of four notes and...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:07:00 GMT |
Understanding Tetrachords |
In essence, a Tetrachord is a series of four tones filling in the interval of a 'perfect fourth', a 4:3 frequency proportion. In modern Persian music, two Tetrachords come together to construct an o...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:24:00 GMT |
Kamal Heer’s New Album |
A couple of weeks ago Plasma Records released Kamal Heer's new album "Chan Jiha Gabhru". I prepared the music for this album. It is a full on music heavy album. Still, Kamal Heer's master voice come...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:44:00 GMT |
32 Thaats (Scales) Flipped - Part IV |
Here is one last look at creating 32 Thaats by flipping the scales.The 12 notes of Indian music are: S, r, R, g, G, m, M', P, d, D, n, N
As you can see, S and P (1st and 5th) are immovable. Both of ...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:13:00 GMT |
32 Thaats (Scales) Flipped - Part III |
Finally, here is the same illustration explained in plain text:1. Kalian is the first Thaat in this system. All notes in Kalian are in their upper position or are Tivar. Kalian's notes are: S, R, G,...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:31:00 GMT |
32 Thaats (Scales) Flipped - Part II |
In the last post, we found all 32 Thaats through a certain process. It went like this:
1. Kalian is the first Thaat,2. Then we lower start to lower notes from the top of the octave sy...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:08:00 GMT |
32 Thaats (Scales) Flipped - Part I |
I am sure that this post will prove to be the most interesting post for advance students of Indian Music. As we have discussed earlier, the 'Ten Thaat System' does not fully describe the scope of Hind...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:26:00 GMT |
Thaat Flipping Basics |
There are 12 notes in Indian Saptak. Two out of these twelve have only one instance. These are 'Sa' and 'Pa' or the first and the fifth. All other notes have two instances, lower and upper or Komal a...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:26:00 GMT |
