Indian
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Track 19 from Saydisc "Percussion Around the World" - notes from Maureen Hanke.
'Rag Megh' is an example of North Indian music featuring the tabla. Tabla are an asymetrical pair of small tuned hand played drums. The smaller treble drum is placed on the right of the two drums and the bass drum is placed on the left.
Listening to traditional performances of North Indian classical music, the tabla mainly keep time in cycles of steady beats and creates increasing elaborate rhythmic patterns around time.
Three main elements of Indian music can be identified in this piece. The drone ( a repeated sound throughout), the tune and the rhythm. The rhythm is played on the tabla, the only skin instrument in the piece. The tune is based on a rag or group of notes and treated with very strict musical rules to create an improvisation that evokes a particular mood. The first part of the improvised melody is without the tabla. The extract starts just before the tabla join in and fades before the piece is completed.
Official classification: Percussion, Tabla, Timbre, Audio, Key Stage 3, India, Drone, Sitar, Indian, Raga, Unit 4. Musical cycles, Unit 12. Bhajan/qawwali, Saydisc Records
Track 18 from Saydisc "Percussion Around the World" - notes from Maureen Hanke. (Also track 11 from Saydisc Listen to This! KS3.) 'The Shepherds' Music' is from Rajasthan and enables the clear sound of the dholak to be heard against the dadara santara, a type of Indian flute.
The dholak ia a double headed cylindrical drum that tapers slightly at each end. One head is usually slightly larger than the other and made of goatskin whilst the smaller head is calf hide. The tension of the heads is regulated by a system of hoops and rings around the edge of the head from which laces are attached down the outside of the drum shell. Smaller rings then placed around adjacent laces regulate the tension of the head.
Official classification: Percussion, Tabla, Timbre, Audio, Key Stage 3, India, Dadara Santara, Dholak, Rajasthan, Indian, Unit 4. Musical cycles, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Track 12 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 2. Wedding song from Rajasthan from Saydisc album 'Rajasthani Folk Music' (2'20")
Main features: instrumentation, structure. This folk song from Rajasthan features a sarangi and dholak. The learning tracks of the Track Explorer focus on structure, instrumental sections, dholak and drone.
Official classification: Listening, Example Voices, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, India, Dholak, Drone, Unit 19 Songwriter, Rajasthan, Indian, Sharangi, Track Explorer, 4a Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - aural memory, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Unit 15. Song, Saydisc Records
This list sequencer app will help users to plan, compose and perform their own version of Shepherds' Music. Based on track 11 of Saydisc Listen to This! KS3 - traditional music from Rajasthan.
Pupils work in threes: drone player, hand drummer and 'pentatonic' melody using D E F# A (+ optional B). The app offers four textural combinations of these parts, which can be developed either as a performance plan, or as a backing to support performance / improvisation if not all parts are represented in the working group.
Official classification: Composing, Arranging, Melody, Sequencers, Interactive Activities, Pentatonic Scales, India, Drone, Indian, List Sequencer, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Example of Bhajan (Indian devotional song) from North India, sung by solo male voice.
Official classification: Tabla, Focus:Bhajan/Qawwali, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Audio, Male, India, Sitar, Indian, Curriculum support, Unit 12. Bhajan/qawwali, Harmonium
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