S-R-gG-m-P-n-S
A recent creation of vocalist Sadhana Shiledar which serves to highlight the continuing phenomenon of ragas being inspired by regional folk melodies. As per her accompanying notes to a 2018 performance, “Anup is a dhun-ugam [folk-derived] raga, based on a folk tune from Dewas in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh”. Her full-length 2025 album rendition sets a sthayi of nnS(RG) GmPG GR(SR)S amidst a specific treatment of the double-Ga, with the shuddha dominating and the komal generally restricted to concluding motions such as nSg gRSnS. Also peruse Shiledar’s other raga creations Ritu, Godhuli, Savitri, & Bhinna Lalit – and read her broader thoughts on raga innovation: “As the thoughts, ideas, preferences, and beliefs of man change with the passage of time, it is unnatural, impossible, and unjustifiable to imagine the expression of art to be eternal. Transformations and modifications have always been a part of evolution…I eagerly accept these changes, and try to identify myself with them. In the process of change, certain conventions have disintegrated and crumbled like old mansions…”).
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[bandish, e.g. 20:34] nnS(GS)G GmP G G(RSR)S; S GmP mG(RG)R, RG(mG) G(RS)S, nSg RSn; nnS(GS)G GmP G G(RSR)S…
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• Prakriti: (none found)
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–Swara Geometries–
• Core form: S–R–gG–m–P–n–S
• Reverse: SRmPdDnS
• Complement: SrMdDNS
• Imperfect: 2 (Re, Ga)
• Detached: 1 (Ga)
• Symmetries: none
• Murchanas: Miyan ki Sarang (on ma)
–Global Translations–
• Carnatic: (~Haridasapriya)
S-R2-G2-G3-M1-P-N2-S
• Jazz: Dorian dbl. 3rd (no 6th)
1-2-b3-3-4-5-b7-8
• Pitch classes (‘fret-jumps’):
0-2-3-4-5-7-10-0
(2–1–1–1–2–3–2)
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• Tanpura: Sa–Pa
• Names: Anup, Anoop
• Transliterations: Hindi (अनूप)
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