MUSIC
DICTIONARY OF SOME SOUTH INDIAN MUSICAL TERMS
A collection of terms in South Indian Music ( with a few terms from North Indian Music ) with their meaning
or description has been provided.
JANTA SWARA
: double notes.
JATHI SWARAM(Tamil)
: a composition with the divisions pallavi, anupallavi and charanam but
without a sahitya.
JAVALI(Tamil)
: a song of an erotic nature.
JANAKA RAAGA
: literally, a parent raaga.
JANAKA-JANYA
PADDHATI : the system of classification of raagas into parent
raagas and derivative raagas.
JANYA RAAGAS(Tamil)
: a raaga born or derived from a janaka or parent raaga.
JHOMBAKA(Tamil)
: a singer who sings with so much effort that the nerves in the region
of his neck bulge out. This is one of the Gayaka doshas or faults in singing
and should be avoided.
JIVA SWARA(Tamil)
: the life note of a raaga. It is also called raaga chhaya swara.
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