Bruno Nettl
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Emeritus Professor of Music and of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Author of The Study of Ethnomusicology; Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents.
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Raga , (from Sanskrit, meaning “colour” or “passion”), in the classical music of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, a melodic framework for improvisation and composition. A raga is based on a scale with a given set of notes, a typical order in which they appear in melodies, and characteristic musical…
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