vivadi

Indian music

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In South Asian arts: Qualities of the scales
…the Western consonant (concordant; reposeful); vivadi, comparable to dissonant (discordant; lacking repose); and anuvadi, comparable to assonant (neither consonant nor dissonant). As in the ancient Greek Pythagorean system, which influenced Western music, only fourths and fifths (intervals of four or five tones in a Western scale) were considered consonant. In…
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