Friday, October 24, 2014

141 Tune Jaijayavanti Hindusthani Method (DvijAvanti of CarnATic Music)

Tune (RAg or RAGA in India) Jaijayavanti is a sweet North Indian RAGa.

Its South Indian version (also called CarnATic Music) is dvijAvanti.

Jaijayavanti belongs to the mother tune group (thAT in Hindi), khamAj, which has the following notes: c, d, e, f, g, a, a#, c'.

In addition to the notes of Khamaj group, Jaijayavanti uses d sharp (khamaj uses e, not d sharp), in a zig zag manner.

Jaijayavanti is a rAga of slow tempo.  Its chief elements (pakaD in Hindi, mukhyAngams in South India) revolve around  e, f, d, d sharp, d, c.

The ear-training listening exercise in the following video tries to show-case a sample of Jaijayavanti (dvijAvanti), as an example.   This video is not perfect because Indian Music both North Indian and South Indian genres, depend on MInds and gamakams for generation of sweetness.  Digital Music is essentially binary 0-1, which does not easily bend to allow gamakams and mInds.

In South Indian Music, Jaijayavanti is usually called as dvijAvanti.  Movement of both the rAgAs is similar.



Western Notes used in one cycle of 16 beat rhythm:

e2fe d^dd2 c/d/e2^d/e/z  c/d/zz/   e^d1e/d/c/.d3c/^A/^d2cd^Ac^AAG  g/f/g/g/.e/f2e/z2.^d3.d2^d2z2  ^A/^A2c1^A/z2 d/e1d/.g/a/f/g/.d/^d2c/^A/dcd/ |

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