Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c5.20

c5.20

Clements in his excellent study of the fundamentals of type,—e.g. Bhairavī thāt, Indian Music thus describes the rāga:³ “The name of the Rāga connotes a scale bearing a fixed relationship to the drone, with its harmonic structure determined by a Vādī and Samvādī, a chief note (“aṃśa svara”) occurring more frequently than others, a lower limit described in terms of the Mūrchanā, occasionally an upper limit also, certain characteristic turns of melody, recurring with frequency, certain rules regarding the employment of embellishments,