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Singing For Rain

February 27, 2013

India - Udaipur - 016 - Monsoon rains on Pichola Lake

Monsoon rains on Pichola Lake, Rajasthan, India (image courtesy mckaysavage)

There’s a famous story out of South Asia, about music, mood, and weather. Because many Hindustani and Karnatik ragas are highly evocative of the everyday – some sung very specifically during certain times of day, year, or season. In fact, there’s an entire corpus of compositions dedicated solely to the weather, the monsoons especially. Which makes perfect sense if you’ve ever seen a really Indian or Pakistani monsoon.

Anyway, back to the music. The north Indo-Pakistani Hindustani classical kind, in particular. [Read more…]

Tagged With: american red cross (national capital region), cocorahs, concert for a cause, deepak, disaster relief, emperor akbar, hindustani classical music, ideavention, monsoons, music of the storms, navratna, note-pounding, science education, tansen

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