Raag in Indian Classical Music:
A Raag can be defined as a combination of 2 things:
1. Which notes can be used in Aroh ie while going up and which can be used in Avroh ie while coming down to the level of microtones.
2. And the norms as to how the notes in the raag are combined and how they are related to each other.
Each raag has a 'Dominant' and 'Subdominant' swara called 'Vaadi' and 'Samvaadi'. A note which is strongly emphasized is called 'Vaadi' and the one which is strong but slightly less is called 'Samvaadi'. Also there are note/s which are excluded from that Raag are called 'Vivadi'
There are other characteristics of Raag:
A Raag can be defined as a combination of 2 things:
1. Which notes can be used in Aroh ie while going up and which can be used in Avroh ie while coming down to the level of microtones.
2. And the norms as to how the notes in the raag are combined and how they are related to each other.
Each raag has a 'Dominant' and 'Subdominant' swara called 'Vaadi' and 'Samvaadi'. A note which is strongly emphasized is called 'Vaadi' and the one which is strong but slightly less is called 'Samvaadi'. Also there are note/s which are excluded from that Raag are called 'Vivadi'
There are other characteristics of Raag:
- Samay (Time)
- Aroh/ Avroh
- Pakad
- Thaat
Read about Swar, Saptak and Thaat system here- http://indianvocalclassesonline.blogspot.in/p/basic-concepts.html
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