Ancient Indian polyrhythms: the structure of the magatalas containing an explanation of their prominent status in the history of Indian rhythm
Author :Kintaert, Thomas
Keywords :Hindustani music
Musical meter and rhythm
Rhythm
Tala
Issue Date :1997
Publisher :Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
Description :This article focuses on a feature of the innate structure of the marga talas it includes a short description of the modren tala system of north Indian classical music and root of the same and other rhythm systems of Indian subcontinent to the marga talas also focuses on poly rhythmic structure of the margatalas and the answers these structures provide some additional thoughts and point out some poly rhythmic remnants of those ancient tals in modern practice. Tala is and was during its more than two-thousand-year-old history one of the two main components of Indian classical music namely the rhythmical, measuring one the other the measured part being svara. This tala system, in all the multitude of forms which it has adopted till the present day doesn't seem to be paralleled for its complexity. ingenuity and tradition in theoretical treatises. The fact that such unique rhythmical systems are still very much alive today makes the search for the origins of tala in the distant past a most fascinating undertaking.
Source :Sangeet Natak Akademi
Type :Article
Received From :Sangeet Natak Akademi
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Kintaert, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned
2017-07-10T01:25:31Z
dc.date.available
2017-07-10T01:25:31Z
dc.date.issued
1997
dc.description.abstract
This article focuses on a feature of the innate structure of the marga talas it includes a short description of the modren tala system of north Indian classical music and root of the same and other rhythm systems of Indian subcontinent to the marga talas also focuses on poly rhythmic structure of the margatalas and the answers these structures provide some additional thoughts and point out some poly rhythmic remnants of those ancient tals in modern practice. Tala is and was during its more than two-thousand-year-old history one of the two main components of Indian classical music namely the rhythmical, measuring one the other the measured part being svara. This tala system, in all the multitude of forms which it has adopted till the present day doesn't seem to be paralleled for its complexity. ingenuity and tradition in theoretical treatises. The fact that such unique rhythmical systems are still very much alive today makes the search for the origins of tala in the distant past a most fascinating undertaking.
dc.source
Sangeet Natak Akademi
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15-29 p.
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application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3854
dc.language.iso
en
dc.publisher
Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
dc.subject
Hindustani music
Musical meter and rhythm
Rhythm
Tala
Government of India
