raga

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• Perhaps Ravi Shankar improvising a six-hour raga on the sitar could give an idea of his mind.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Each raga evokes a certain emotion like love, sorrow, hatred, peace, etc.

  Blog text (19)

• One must learn whether an Indian raga expresses the feelings of morning or evening.

  Academic text (1993)

• In this practice, the performer bends a sustained pitch after the initial attack as a way to develop the mood of the raga.

  Academic text (2015)

• Are they broadening their musical education through exposure to ragas, klezmer, and spirituals?

  Academic text (2005)

• Their music is based on ragas (scales) and has been influenced by early and ongoing cultural exchange with North India (Moisala 2000).

  Academic text (2016)

• Ravi Shankar is perhaps the most famous raga virtuoso (to us Westerners).

  Blog text (7)

• Areas of focus might include Indian ragas, the Javanese gamelan, Gypsy music, the Appalachian folk song tradition, spirituals, and the blues.

  Academic text (1998)

• If we have learned to teach the clarinet or violin, we can learn to teach guitar; similarly, if we have analyzed the music of J. S. Bach or Indian raga, we can certainly discern and teach the forms of today's popular music.

  Academic text (2011)

• Additionally, performance skills in other sophisticated music styles—American jazz, Irish Celtic music, Argentinean tango, and Indian raga, among a myriad—traditionally have been aurally developed and maintained.

  Academic text (2012)

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