• Raag Jait •

S-rR-G-P-D-S


A charming audav raga with several disparate branches. In particular, the treatment of Re varies (some render it komal, and others shuddha, while Jaipur-Atrauli singers employ both forms) – with Dha, which must be taken vakra, also showing up in both its variants (albeit not within the same performance). Indeed, even renditions by the same artist may vary according to the hour: as per Hariprasad Chaurasia, probably the raga’s most prominent modern interpreter, “Jait is the only [raga] which is played in both the morning and evening: in the morning, it is based on Bibhas, and in the evening, it is based on Marwa”. Despite these explicitly-stated similarities, Jait is distinguished from both ragas by a stronger use of Pa over Dha (e.g. S\P; PDGP; PDPS). Also see the overlapping Jait Kalyan.


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Aroha: SrGPDS / SRGPDS
Avroh: SDPGrS / SDPGRS

Chalan: e.g. SGPGP; PDGP; PDPS; SrS; SP; PDGP; PGrS (Parrikar)

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[alap, e.g. 5:33] G, G\r, DSr PD, rS(D), S(rSD) S(r)r, m\r, (S)r (S)r, mrS, rG, S(D)D GrGr SrS, DSD PD(SDP), G, PDSrDSr G, SrG, G\rS…

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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 | 32Enclosed | Inexact

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

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


Aroha: Audav | Shadav | Sampurna

Avroh: Audav | Shadav | Sampurna

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

Samay: Morning | Aftern. | Eve. | Night

Construction: Jod | Mishra | Oddball

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Dominance: Poorvang | Uttarang

Prevalence: A-list | Prachalit | Aprach.

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• Prakriti: (none found)
Also see other ragas matching the generic swarasSa-Re-Ga-Pa-Dha

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–Swara Geometries–

Core form: SrRGPDS
Reverse: SgmdnNS (=Tulsikauns)
Complement: SgmMdnNS
Imperfect: 2 (re, Ga)
Detached: 1 (re)
Symmetries: none
Murchanas: Jog set

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–Global Translations–

Carnatic: (~Mohanam)
S-R1-R2-G3-P-D2-S
Jazz: Major Pentatonic (dbl. 3rd)
1-b2-2-3-5-6-8
Pitch classes (‘fret-jumps’):
0-1-2-4-7-9-0
(1–1–2–3–2–3)

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• Tanpura: Sa–Pa
• Names: Jait, Jayat, Jeth, Jetha
• Transliterations: Hindi (जयत); Bengali (জয়ত)

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