S-r-gG-M-d-n-S

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A Todi variant known, as of 2025, through a single rendition: Supriyo Maitro’s spellbinding vocal tribute to his Dagarvani forebear Zia Fariduddin Dagar, live from the 2018 Faridi Samorah Festival in Bhopal with Aditya Deep on pakhawaj (“in remembrance of [Zia’s] 86th birthday, the festival was a musical tribute to the Ustad by his disciples, in fond memory of him”). Faridi Todi’s unique SrgGMdnS shape – familiar to jazz musicians as the ‘Superlocrian/Altered’ scale – offers few consonant resolutions to Sa, requiring performers to construct a delicate balance of other sangatis around an unstable core. Maitro makes sparing use of shuddha Ga (the only shuddha swara on offer), confining it to the phrases SrgGMd and SndMG, and his ascending lines tend to omit ni – leaving a pentatonic focus on SrgMdS (pakad: gMd d/S; reminiscent of Firozkhani Todi). Compare to the rest of its murchana set (Charukeshi, Patdeep, Ahiri, Vachaspati), as well as to Mangal Gujari (the ‘komal ga only’ version of the scale) and Shrutivardhini (another raga linked to Zia Fariduddin Dagar). I’m currently researching more about the raga…further information welcome!

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[motifs, e.g. 0:52] SrgGM, d, S(nS) SS(n)S, SS, SS, SS, SndM\G G, GMdS S, S SSS S, S SSS S, gMd (d)S, n nd (d)Md, (d)S…

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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

Thaat: 10 | 32 | Enclosed | Inexact

Chal: All-shuddha | All-komal | Ma-tivra

Gaps: Anh. | Hemi. | 3-row | 4-row | 5-row

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Aroha: Audav | Shadav | Sampurna

Avroh: Audav | Shadav | Sampurna

Jati: Equal | Balanced | Av.+1 | Av.+2

Samay: Morning | Aftern. | Eve. | Night

Construction: Jod | Mishra | Oddball

Origin: Ancient | Carnatic | Modern

Dominance: Poorvang | Uttarang

Prevalence: A-list | Prachalit | Aprach.

• Prakriti: (none found)

See all shadav ragas which omit Pa – and also compare to other members of the Todi raganga

–Swara Geometries–

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• Core form: S–r–gG–M–d–n–S

• Reverse: SRGMdDNS

• Complement: SRmPDNS

• Imperfect: 3 (Sa, Ga, ni)

• Detached: 2 (Sa, Ga)

• Symmetries: mirror (R—d)

• Murchanas: Charukeshi set

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• Quirks: ‘maximal‘ (swaras are optimally ‘spread out’)

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–Global Translations–

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• Carnatic: (?)

S-R₁-G₂-G₃-M₂-D₁-N₂-S

• Jazz: Superlocrian/Altered

1-b2-b3-3-#4-b6-b7-8

• Pitch classes (‘fret-jumps’):

0-1-3-4-6-8-10-0

(1–2–1–2–2–2–2)

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• Tanpura: Sa–dha

• Names: Faridi Todi, Farid Todi

• Transliterations: Hindi (फ़रीद तोडी)

—Supriyo Maitro (2018)—