[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935) › c7.2 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.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 - [Previous: c7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c7.1) - [Next: c7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c7.3) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1935.c7.2) · Pramāṇa