(do, re, mi, sol, and la), one can rotate through all possible five modes of the anhemitonic pentatonic collection, the Gong/Shang/Jue/Zhi/Yu mode, which corresponds to the Raga Bhupali/Megh/Malkauns/Durga/Dhani Carnatic in the Indian pentatonic scale from the perspective of modal pitch ...
of these precolonial civilizations, but available sources do afford glimpses into the roles of music in the most-advanced cultures. These sources include survivingmusical instruments, dictionaries of Indian languages compiled by early European missionaries, chronicles written by Europeans of the 16th ...
TheLambadiwomen ofAndhra Pradeshwear mirror-speckled headdresses and skirts and cover their arms with broad, white bone bracelets. They dance in slow,swayingmovements, with men acting as singers and drummers. Their social dance is imbued with impassioned grace and lyricism. ...
rejecting the heavy sets and realistic decor of the commercial companies, created a lyrical theatre of the imagination. Much influenced by thebaulsingers and folk actors of Bengal, he introduced the Singing Bairagi and the Wandering Poet (similar to thevivekof thejatra) in his dramas. In the ...