Describe the time-oganization characteristics of the selection, including when, in elapsed seconds, the mridangam provides rhythmic accompaniment
What will be an ideal response?
• 0:28 to end—strong, complex rhythmic background in adi tala (an Indian metric cycle of 4 + 2 + 2 beats) provided by a mridangam (classical double-headed drum of South India). The drummer improvises throughout—improvisation plays an important role in the creation of Indian music.
• steady pulse, but the music is not in any of the duple/quadruple/triple/compound or related meters familiar to Western listeners
• rhythms of sung vocal solo are complemented by the mridangam rhythms—both voice and drum are in the same tala/metric cycle
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