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Compiling global examples of music in the Insen/Bairagi Scale

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1-b2-4-5-b7

(C-D^b-F-G-B^b-C)

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• Insen/Bairagi: Sounds •

Real-world examples of the scale in action:

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• General: 

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• India: Introduced to the Hindustani ragascape by Ravi Shankar in 1949 as as Raag Bairagi, via a article and composition published in Sangeet magazine – partly inspired by his imagining of ancient Vedic chant refrains (his daughter Anoushka considers the scale to have “this deep, spiritual, internal quality”). Also matches the Carnatic Revathi.

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Artist (inst)

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• Insen/Bairagi: More •

Features, classifiers, quirks, etc…

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[analysis: coming soon]

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—Classifiers & Quirks—

• Modes: Shivranjani (from b7)
• Quirks: Hemitonic (imperfect: b2, ♮5; detached: b2)
• Names: Suspended Pentatonic b2, Phrygian no3/6 (Western); Insen/Han-Iwato (Japan); Bairagi (Hindustani); Revati (Carnatic)

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n.b. For more detailed geometric and mathematical analysis, refer to this scale’s entry in Ian Ring’s fantastic Exciting Universe of Music Theory project (for which I am an occasional ‘raga consultant’)

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