reShaBha-gAnDhAra-DhIvatha based penta-tonic scales


Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 15:36:21 GMT
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Subject: Re: Mohanam / Bhupali & 5-note scales

In article <1993May28.025144.19643@epas.toronto.edu> alevine@epas.utoronto.ca (Arthur Levine) writes:

I looked at it again. I think there are eight possibilities, and three of them are anomalous:


The number of mOhanam-like (ie. penta-tonic scales with reShaBha-gAnDhAra-panjcama-DhIvatha notes) can be easily computed---the actual number depends on whether you want to consider vevAdhe svaras or not.

Considering vevAdhe svaras:

r1 (g1/g2/g3) (d1/d2/d3)    :    1 x 3 x 3 = 9
r2 (g2/g3)    (d1/d2/d3)    :    1 x 2 x 3 = 6
r3 g3         (d1/d2/d3)    :    1 x 1 x 3 = 3
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total                       :               18
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Okay. If you don't want to consider the vevAdhe svaras (ie. eliminate the r3/g1/d3 notes), the number of possibilities is:

r1 (g2/g3) (d1/d2)          :    1 x 2 x 2 = 4
r2 (g2/g3) (d1/d2)          :    1 x 2 x 2 = 4
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total                       :                8
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which Art Levine mentions in his article. The table below lists the karNAtaka rAgas for each of these possibilities (with approximate hendhusthAne equivalents for some of them).

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Scale      mAELa             karNAtaka          hendhusthAne
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r1 g1 d1   kanakAnggE        rangga-nAyakE      ???
r1 g1 d2   vanaspathE        thamasvenE         ???
r1 g1 d3   thAnarUpE         jnjAna-svarUpeNE   ???
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r1 g2 d1   hanuma-thOdE      BUpALam            BUpAl-thOdE
r1 g2 d2   nAtakapreyA       vIjayanthE         ???
r1 g2 d3   rUpavathE         SaSAngja-keraNE    ???
-----------------------------------------------------------------
r1 g3 d1   mAyAmALavagAULa   rAEvagupthE        veBAs (BIrav ThAT)
r1 g3 d2   cakravAham        raseka-ranjjanE    veBAs
r1 g3 d3   hAtakAmbarE       varNa-rUpeNE       ???
-----------------------------------------------------------------
r2 g2 d1   naTaBIravE        kAthyAyanE         ???
r2 g2 d2   KaraharapreyA     SevaranjjanE       SevaranjjanE
r2 g2 d3   varuNapreyA       sAEvathE           ???
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r2 g3 d1   mAra-ranjjanE     janasammOdhenE     ???
r2 g3 d2   harekAmBOjE       mOhanam            BUpAlE
r2 g3 d3   nagAnandhenE      vAhenE             ???
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r3 g3 d1   rAgavarDhanE      vepula             ???
r3 g3 d2   vAgadhESvarE      vehavathE          ???
r3 g3 d3   calanAtta         lOlAkShE           ???
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