S-r-g-m-P-D-n-S
A seldom-heard raga created by bansuriya Hariprasad Chaurasia, which (to my ears) resembles a blend of the morning Ahir Bhairav and the late night Bageshri. His student Rajendra Teredesai describes it as having “all the hues…beautiful, complex, yet spiritually uplifting…full of pathos and bhakti ras…a state of perpetual divine bliss”. Prakriti with Ahiri, the raga also resembles Parameshwari via regularly skipping Pa in aroha (e.g. Abhisek Borkar’s sarod solo) – although, given its rarity, phraseological tendencies remain somewhat uncodified. Possibly connected to a congruent Mehdi Hasan ghazal (Go Zara Si Baat), although broader information remains scant.
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—Rakesh Chaurasia (2018)—
[alap, e.g. 0:45] mgmn DD, mgmD PP, m(g)m(g)P m, mn DPm\g, mS (P)D, D/mSD n, (Sn)mgr(Sr)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
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.
• Prakriti: Thaat #30, Ahiri, Jaiwanti Todi
–Swara Geometries–
• Core form: S–r–g–m–P–D–n–S
• Reverse: SRgmPDNS (=Patdeep)
• Negative: 3-2-2-2-3 (e.g. Tivrakauns)
• Imperfect: 3 (re, Pa, Dha)
• Detached: 2 (re, Dha)
• Symmetries: mirror (m—N)
• Murchanas: Charukeshi set
• Quirks: ‘maximal‘ (swaras are optimally ‘spread out’)
–Global Translations–
• Carnatic: ~Natakapriya
S-R1-G2-M1-P-D2-N2-S
• Jazz: Dorian b2
1-b2-b3-4-5-6-b7-8
• Pitch classes (‘fret-jumps’):
0-1-3-5-7-9-10-12
(1–2–2–2–2–1–2)
o o • o • o • o • o o • o
• Tanpura: Sa–ma
• Names: Prabhateshwari, Prabhatashwaree
—Hariprasad Chaurasia (~2010s)—