S-R-G-M-D-N-S
A ‘Kalyan no Pa’ melody devised by Gwalior vocal innovator Vasantrao Deshpande (although he may well have seen it more like a ‘Marwa shuddha Re’). Parrikar describes how “the relief-inducing nyas on Pa is missing, giving a ‘restive’ persona”, while Ocean of Ragas gives a pakad of GmD, DmGR, NRS (also noting its congruence with Hindol Kalyan and Maru Kalyan, two ultra-rare ragas sung by Amir Khan). Generally treated as hexatonic in both ascent and descent, although some artists may render the Re as durbal on the way up – and debate contunues as to whether the vadi–samvadi are Ga–Ni (the ‘natural’ geometric choice) or Re–Dha (as per the Marwa-ang).
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—Vasantrao Deshpande (1975)—
[refrain, e.g. 0:24] SN(D), NS N(D), N S S, N N(D) D(SD), (NR)N\D N(DS), S(RSNSND), R(GR)GRS, NRG(R)G(MRG)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
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-R-G-M-D-N-S
• Reverse: SrgMdnS (=Mangal Gujari)
• Inverse: ni; SgmPDnS (=none)
• Imperfect: 2 (Sa, Ma)
• Detached: 1 (Sa)
• Symmetries: none
• Murchanas: Jansammohini (on Re)
–Global Translations–
• Carnatic: Mruganandana
S-R2-G3-M2-D2-N3-S
• Jazz: Lydian (no 5th)
1-2-3-#4-6-7-8
• Pitch classes (‘fret-jumps’):
0-2-4-6-9-11-0
(2–2–2–3–2–1)
o • o • o • o • • o • o o
• Tanpura: Sa–Pa
• Names: Raj Kalyan, Rajkalyan, Raja Kalyan, ‘Pancham virahit Kalyan’
—Rahul Deshpande (2008)—