Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Beauty of hindustani Ragas

Lately I have started learning hindustani classical music under Pt. Nagraj Rao Havaldar and Omkarnath Havaldar. Im very amazed by the way they define it " The most artistic science and the most scintific art" . The beauty of ragas according to me lies in the creativity associated with it and the mood conveyed by it. A composition in a raga can be sung in so many different forms that even if u practice same raga throughout you life daily, even then you have new things to explore and catch your attention and this makes you closely attched to the raga. Ragas have been defined thousands of year ago and every raga is associated with some part of a day ie there are evening ragas , morning ragas etc. The reason behind this can only be felt if you experience the raga by yourself either by singin or listening to it. You will find that its so natural and instinctive to sing a morning a raga only during morning .

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