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Compiling global examples of music in the Insen/Bairagi Scale
1-b2-4-5-b7
(C-Db-F-G-Bb-C)
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• Insen/Bairagi: Sounds •
Real-world examples of the scale in action:
- General:
- 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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Features, classifiers, quirks, etc…
[analysis: coming soon]
—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)
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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