Word: ragas
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During the "gat" phase when the raga is set to a sixteen-beat rhythmic time cycle, and during the speeding climax of the "thala," there appears to be a heightened intensification-rather than a confusion-of the raga's mood, as Mirza and Khan seem to mysteriously coalesce in a musical vision of sheer symmetry...
THOUGH the raga has been widely popularized in the United States in recent years, thanks to its introduction by Indian musicians Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin, a great unfamiliarity with the art as it is actually practiced in India still exists...
...wail out emotion in a vocal idiom characteristic of the centuries-old Kirana school in which he was trained. While other schools of sitar-playing emphasize greater instrumentality, Mirza's "singing sitar style offers a welcome depth of feeling to the western listener who has difficulty intellectualizing the sophisticated raga system...
Like American jazz, the Hindustani music of India is improvisational. The raga is the mode or theme on which the performer improvises spontaneously, developing 95 per cent of the piece originally. It is an unwritten, oral tradition that has been handed down through the generations since about...
...Mirza's ragas show a clarity that American critics have often found lacking in performances of other Indian musicians. He manages to achieve organic union of his melodic material with the complementary rhythms of his tabla accompanist Faygaz Khan, without sacrificing the hold definition of the raga's theme...