Discuss the “sound world” of India’s classical music with reference to melody (include ornamentation, scale; relation to drone, and “note” in a melody)
What will be an ideal response?
- A single melody unfolds against an unchanging drone (a continuously-sounding center tone and a tone a fifth above in a characteristic nasal timbre).
- The melody is intensely ornamented with bends and slides, and with the notes of its scale zigzagging through intervals unfamiliar to Western ears.
- A note "can be a tiny constellation of ornamented pitches" in contrast to the fixed, discrete pitches used as notes in Western melodies.
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