Describe some of the pitch aspects of the selection, including when in elapsed seconds, the singer starts her vocal solo
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• 0:00–0:06—Drone (electronically-produced) starts out alone playing the tonal center and a perfect fifth above the tonal center and continues to sustain this musical interval throughout the recording thereby "anchoring" the tonality of the singer's melody. "Against this unchanging background a single melody unfolds."
• 0:07—singer enters with raga-based solo, a highly decorated melody with many embellishing tones ("intense ornamentation") some of which are smaller intervals than the Western half-step ("microtonal" from a Western's point of view), imparting a strong non-Western ("Indian") flavor to the melody. ("A ‘note' can be a tiny constellation of ornamented pitches.")
• The vocal soloist often glides/slides to and around the important notes of the melody making the melody sound very complex to a Westerner's ears that may be used to symmetrical and relatively unembellished melodies.
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