#CARNATIC MUSIC THEORY 3RD YEAR SERIES#
I am intentionally not spoonfeeding in this series of articles, since I assume you understand a branch of music fairly well, and can adapt using your way of thinking about and understanding music. Along the way I will introduce the concept of intervals.
#CARNATIC MUSIC THEORY 3RD YEAR HOW TO#
At the end of this article, you should know how to take the sankarabharanam raaga and map it to any major scale. In this article, I will look at the way notes are represented in Western and how it maps into carnatic. The basic elements of harmony will be the contents of the next article. Western music has two dimensions - horizontal and vertical (melody and harmony). The fundamental way in which western music differs from carnatic is that carnatic music is largely horizontal - melody driven. This is referred to as a tritone in western music. Note that it is 3 tones away from C (Sa). To illustrate, Kalyani, starting on the C note as Sa, would be as follows:
Take the root note (Sa) and build the intervals on top of it. With this background, it becomes obvious that any raag (without the gamakam aspect) can be fitted onto the standard piano. When a piece of music is written in C minor, it comprises the following notes So when a piece of music is written in C Major, it comprises the following notes This scale pattern is called the minor scale in western music. Starting with D, this would look as follows:
Starting with C for example, this would be Starting with any note on the scale, if we build using this interval pattern, the Keeravani raag will result. So the interval-lic pattern for the Keeravani raag is As a quick refresher, IIM is also called a tone, and IIm is also called as a semitone. This refers to what is called an Augmented second interval. There is a new interval here that I have called IIA. Sa - Ri2 - Ga2 - Ma1 - Pa - Dha1 - Ni3 - Sa Keeravani's notes translated into intervals are I dropped the last article off with a plan of talking about Keeravani and how other ragas can be mapped onto the western scale.
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