Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c7.2
Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c7.2
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c7.2
According to an ingenious suggestion by a modern scholar of music,² it is the placing of the emphasis on the cadential notes (nyāsa, vinyāsa, apanyāsa, sannyāsa) on the stronger or the weaker pulses of the rhythm of a melody that determines its sex. And that when the musical phrases or