| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Tunings and re-tuning | | Date: | Monday, November 5, 2007 16:22:14 (-0800) | | From: | Tom Foote <footet @.........edu>
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On Nov 5, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Lennie Harvey wrote:
> [snip..]
>
> Reminds of that marvellous moment on the Concert For Bangladesh
> album, where
> Ravi Shankar and his musicians spend about 5 minutes tuning up,
> when they
> finish and fall silent they get a great round of applause, the
> audience are
> obviously under the impression that they have just heard the first
> tune of
> the set. Ravi says, dry as anything "If you like the tuning so
> much, we hope
> you also enjoy the music..."
Tsk! c'mon Ravi... that's a cheap shot.. : :> )
>
> in defense of the audience, the India music culture sets them up
> for
that response. i.e., the Raga has a section called the
_Alap_ where the
sitarist introduces every note he's going to play... this can
last 20 minutes
and can sound a lot like tuning. This all happens before the
artist launches
into the main part of the Raga. But, we need to remember that
we're
dealing with a culture where the master teacher demands the
student
"speak" each part of the rhythm with appropriate words like
Tay, Tah,
for each characteristic of the rhythm...etc.. correctly,
before the master will allow the
student to play the melodic line on an instrument. But, what
can one
expect from a culture that insists the student spend as much
as an entire
year on one Raga!
hm-m-m... let's see pick out a Jerry tune and spend a year on
it... makes sense I guess... particularly if its Cincinnati
Rag : > )
Tom
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