Indian scale

1. What is the Indian scale?
2. What are ragas?
3. What are the 7 ragas?
4. What is a raga scale?

What is the Indian scale?

More comprehensively, swara-graam (scale) is the practical concept of Indian music comprising seven + five= twelve most useful musical pitches.

What are ragas?

A raga or raag (IAST: rāga; also raaga or ragam; literally "coloring, tingeing, dyeing") is a melodic framework for improvisation akin to a melodic mode in Indian classical music. ... Each rāga provides the musician with a musical framework within which to improvise.

What are the 7 ragas?

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• Aadi (raga)
• Aadi Basant (Marwa Thaat)
• Aarabi (raga)
• Abhari (raagini)
• Abheri Todi.
• Abhiri (raagini)
• Abhogi.
• Abhogi Kanada.

What is a raga scale?

A raga (pronounced RAH-guh) is a collection of pitches, kind of like a scale or mode in Western music. Each raga is defined, however, not only by the pitches themselves, but also by specific formulas for using them.