S-g-M-P-n-S
An angular pentatonic form conjured up by vocalist Amir Khan only a short time before his untimely death in a 1974 car accident – indeed, it is unclear if he ever formally named his new creation (I’ve seen it referred to as ‘Bhushwati’ and ‘Amarpriya’, and at least two posthumous releases just list it as ‘Untitled Raga’). A detailed RMIC thread discusses several plausible origin theories, generally linking the raga’s genesis to an intricate murchana process involving Chandrakauns and Madhukauns: it is prakriti with the latter, and Khan may well have made no practical distinction between the pair – however, given the general sparsity of information, it is unclear which recordings count as ‘true’ renditions. Bewitching in its oddities (‘Dhani tivra Ma‘ / ‘Minor Pentatonic #4‘).
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—Amir Khan (~1970s)—
[khayal, e.g. 1:01] PS(nSP)nP (n)S, g(gSnS)gMP, PgMPn P, PMP(nPSnSnPMP…), (P)n SgS…
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Swaras: -4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10+
Sapta: Audav | Shadav | Sampurna
Poorvang: SRGM | SRG | SRM | SGM
Uttarang: PDNS | PDS | PNS | DNS
Varjit: Re | Ga | Ma | Pa | Dha | Ni
Double: rR | gG | mM | dD | nN
Thaat: 10 | 32 | Enclosed | Inexact
Chal: All-shuddha | All-komal | Ma-tivra
Gaps: Anh. | Hemi. | 3-row | 4-row | 5-row
Symmetries: Mirror | Rotation | Palindr.
Aroha: Audav | Shadav | Sampurna
Avroh: Audav | Shadav | Sampurna
Jati: Equal | Balanced | Av.+1 | Av.+2
Samay: Morning | Aftern. | Eve. | Night
Murchana: Bhup. | Bihag | Bilaw. | Charu.
Raganga: Bhairav | Malhar | Kan. | Todi
Construction: Jod | Mishra | Oddball
Origin: Ancient | Carnatic | Modern
Dominance: Poorvang | Uttarang
Prevalence: A-list | Prachalit | Aprach.
–Swara Geometries–
• Core form: S-g-M-P-n-S
• Reverse: SRmMDS (=none)
• Inverse: Ni; SRgmMDnS (=none)
• Imperfect: 3 (Ma, Pa, ni)
• Detached: 1 (Ma)
• Symmetries: none
• Murchanas: Chandrakauns (on Pa)
–Global Translations–
• Carnatic: ~Samudrapriya
S-G2-M2-P-N2-S
• Jazz: Minor Pentatonic (#4)
1-b3-#4-5-b7-8
• Pitch classes (‘fret-jumps’):
0-3-6-7-10-0
(3–3–1–3–2)
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• Tanpura: Sa–Pa
• Names: Chandramadhu, Bhushwati, Amarpriya, (Madhukauns?)
—Sultan Khan (1988)—