thanks Haresh

for that explanation of Marwa. I love things like ragas that are so
difficult to describe!! then, being the nerdy geek that I am, I also
love still trying desparately to describe them!! cool.
>>Does Indian music have absolutely NO harmony? We should take this up
>>later.
I think what I was saying was "no" to this question, in at least the sense
of: if the answer were yes, then what would things like "mood" of a raga
etc. depend on? Only the relationships between the tones of the scale
themselves (although, as I also pointed out, these are arguably harmonic
as well); but the fact that there is a drone underneath, means there is
at least a dyad happening at all times (except in points of "silence"),
and what dyads occur, powerfully affects the mood, and is a result of
harmony.

***From: Christopher Bailey******************

http://music.columbia.edu/~chris

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Jay here,
Haven't followed this thread consistently, I'll admit, but this message
brings up a salient point. I've had arguments with theory profs for years
about just what is and what is not "harmony." It all seems to swirl around
the idea that what they mean by "harmony" is very specific, Western
Functional Harmony. Any other vertical sonorities are somehow, not harmony.
Well, to me, ragas and other musics of similar cast definitely exhibit
harmony. It may even be "functional" if one's willing to hear it with ears
oriented differently. At 09:07 AM 2/12/01 -0500, you wrote:
>for that explanation of Marwa. I love things like ragas that are so
>difficult to describe!! then, being the nerdy geek that I am, I also
>love still trying desparately to describe them!! cool.
>>>Does Indian music have absolutely NO harmony? We should take this up
>>>later.
>I think what I was saying was "no" to this question, in at least the sense
>of: if the answer were yes, then what would things like "mood" of a raga
>etc. depend on? Only the relationships between the tones of the scale
>themselves (although, as I also pointed out, these are arguably harmonic
>as well); but the fact that there is a drone underneath, means there is
>at least a dyad happening at all times (except in points of "silence"),
>and what dyads occur, powerfully affects the mood, and is a result of
>harmony.
>
>
>***From: Christopher Bailey******************
>
>http://music.columbia.edu/~chris
>
>**********************************************
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