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Version 3: Benjy Wertheimer (esraj and tabla) and Steve Gorn (bansuri) Instruments: bansuri, esraj, tambura and tabla Bansuri: The bansuri is a flute from India made from a single hollow shaft of bamboo with six or

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Version 3: Benjy Wertheimer (esraj and tabla) and Steve Gorn (bansuri ). Bansuri : The bansuri is a flute from India made from a single hollow shaft of bamboo with six or seven finger holes. Instruments: bansuri, esraj, tambura and tabla. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Version 3: Benjy Wertheimer (esraj and tabla) and Steve Gorn (bansuri)

Instruments: bansuri, esraj, tambura and tabla

Bansuri: The bansuri is a flute from India made from a single hollow shaft of bamboo with six or seven finger holes.

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Version 3: Benjy Wertheimer (esraj and tabla) and Steve Gorn (bansuri)

Instruments: bansuri, esraj, tambura and tabla

Esraj: A string instrument with a medium sized sitar-like neck with 20 heavy metal frets. This neck holds on a long wooden rack of 12-15 sympathetic strings. There are four main strings, which are bowed.

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Version 3: Benjy Wertheimer (esraj and tabla) and Steve Gorn

(bansuri)Instruments: bansuri, esraj, tambura and tabla

Tambura: A long necked plucked stringed instrument found in different versions in different places. The tambura has no frets, as only the open strings are played as a harmonic accompaniment to the other musicians. It has four or five wire strings, which are plucked one after another in a regular pattern to create a drone.

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Version 3: Benjy Wertheimer (esraj and tabla) and Steve Gorn (bansuri)

Instruments: bansuri, esraj, tambura and tabla

Tabla: A pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres.

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Version 3: Benjy Wertheimer (esraj and tabla) and Steve Gorn

(bansuri)• Structure:Three movements-Alap Gat 1 (slow) Gat 2 (fast)• Watch the video of V3 and annotate the

score or write notes in your green book

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEJmYDwSVz0&feature=related

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Detailed Analysis of Version 3:Features

Time Section Features

0.00 – 8.35

Alap(part 1)

• Slow and unmeasured section. • Drone is established by the tambura which plays the notes Sa (C) and Pa (G) (tonic and dominant).• The bansuri (flute) then comes in, playing the rag. This develops from trying out the various pitches in short fragments to a more developed melodic part.

0.00 – 4.41

Gat 1(part 2)

• Slow tempo.• Lyrical unaccompanied melody for the bansuri and the tabla comes in at 0.31 playing the seven-beat rupak tala.•Rupak tal (7 beats): 3 + 2 + 21 2 3 4 5 6 7Wave Clap Clap

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Detailed Analysis of Version 3:Features

Time Section Features

Gat 1(part 2)

• This fixed composition then starts at 0.43. Following this the music becomes more agitated and dramatic.• Improvisation takes over around the gat, while the tabla player also decorates the original tala pattern.• The bansuri then plays the gat repeatedly whilst the tabla player improvises.• At 3.32 the two instruments swap function = bansuri improvises and tabla accompanies.• Several tihais are heard to mark out section ends. The last of these leads into the second gat at 4.41

4.41- end Gat 2(part 3)

• A fast tempo (drut) in ektal tala.Ektal tal (12 beats): 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 21 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12clap clap wave clap wave clap•Tabla sets a fast tempo, bansuri plays an elaborate gat containing wide ranges of pitch, scalic runs and slides.•Fast scale passages are called tans.

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Test your understanding

• You will now attempt a GCSE style question based on the 2 versions you have learnt today.

• There is silence at the beginning of the track giving you time to read and understand the questions on the worksheet

• There are pauses between playings of the extracts• Good luck!

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Answers1a • i) Sarod• ii) explores the notes of the raga scale ascending and descending

gradually and in free rhythm/unmetred feel including the use of improvisation and melodic decoration/use of ornaments

• iii) Alap1b • i) Tabla• ii) Tala (or Rupak Tala) • iii) Gat;1c) Any two of: • - slow v fast tempo; • - free v more rhythmic• - improvised vs fixed composition• - no pulse v steady pulse; 1d) D, F, G, B

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Consolidate

• Discuss• Evaluate your learning

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L3: PLENARY – SELF ASSESSMENT KEY WORDS – gharana, raga, pentatonic, rasa, bols, matras, syncopation, tala, meend/mind, tan, timbre, Sitar, Tambura, Tabla, Sarod, Sarangi, Cymbals, Alap, Gat, Jhalla

I know the terminolgy used in Indian Music

I can identify different Indian musical instruments and describe their roles within different performances of Rag Desh

I can use specific musical vocabulary relating to certain playing techniques used in Indian music

I can talk about all 3 versions of Rag Desh musically I can attempt a “Section A” style listening question on Rag Desh

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And finally

• Complete the summary

• Homework- preparation for test!!• Revise all we have learnt about Rag Desh- focus on:

– Structure of a raga performance (characteristics)– Instruments– Terminology