Browse the ragascape: You’re probably yet to find your all-time favourite! Search the raga index via text, tags, classifiers, contextual descriptions, melodic and geometric structures, and many more dimensions…
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• Text-Search Tips •
How to find what you seek…
- Descriptors: e.g. Try inputting names (‘Malhar’, ‘Kauns’), performers (‘Kishori Amonkar’), gharanas (‘Agra’, ‘Mewati’), instruments (‘sitar’, ‘sarod’), histories (‘Tansen’, ‘Mughal‘), samay (‘sunrise’, ‘night’), descriptors (‘myth’, ‘ancient‘), etc.
- Swaras: In ascending order, separated by generic swara position with ‘–’ (e.g. ‘S-R-G-mM-P-D-nN-S’) – also try un-separated snippets such as ‘gmRS’. [n.b. ‘m/ma’=shuddha, ‘M/Ma’=tivra: although in Chrome, Safari, and IE, the ‘find’ function is case-insensitive: use Firefox’s ‘Match Case’ for komal/shuddha/tivra specificity, or try a browser add-on such as Chrome Regex Search. Bear with me while I code a more elegant solution!]
- Also: For more agile inter-raga navigation, try ‘Ctrl-F’ searching similar terms within the Full Megalist page – which contains summary descriptions and basic swara-set info for all ragas in the project (all ragas instantly link to each other, aiming for a ‘hyper-connected whole’). And similarly with the Raga Glossary.
• Tags & Classifiers •
Explore via formal categorisations: swara geometries, melodic features, murchana sets, ragangas, & more (see the Full Tag List):
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
Symmetries: Mirror | Rotation | Palindr.
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
Murchana: Bhup. | Bihag | Bilaw. | Charu.
Raganga: Bhairav | Malhar | Kan. | Todi
Construction: Jod | Mishra | Oddball
Origin: Ancient | Carnatic | Modern
Dominance: Poorvang | Uttarang
Prevalence: Prachalit | Aprachalit | A-list
Quirks: Atritonal | Fragmented | Centred
| Maximal | Self-shadowing | Komal Pa
• Explore by Swara •
Sa | Re | Ga | Ma | Pa | Dha | Ni
• Ragatable Search •
Find ragas via my comparison table of all 300+ Megalist ragas: searching for hidden relations via swara-set spreadsheeting (allows for granular queries across various melodic & geometric parameters):
—FULL RAGATABLE—
“Why turn to the spreadsheets? While ragas are never reducible to mere scale forms, my own state of knowledge will never expand to encompass the true fullness of the ragascape either. Given Hindustani music’s complexity, we must ‘upgrade the mind’, using formalised methods to really see the hidden inter-swara connections…” (Ragatable Explained)