Define raga.?
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• From the Sanskrit word for "coloring, dyeing, tingeing" or "that which colors the mind."
• A kind of expressive entity with a musical personality all its own, a "portfolio of characteristic musical gestures and phrases."
• A collection of notes, a scale, intonation, ornaments, pillar tones (usually the tonal center, sa, and the tone a perfect fifth above the tonal center, pa). The basic "parent"/"mother" scale of a raga has seven tones—sa, ri, ga, ma, pa, da, ni. By varying the scale degrees of ri, ga, ma, da, or ni, up to seventy-two different raga scales can be produced.
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