This album features vocal renditions of the popular ragas belonging to the Bilawal thaat by the legends of classical music.
Bilawal Thaat
The Bilawal thaat consists of seven full notes (shuddh swara-s). The ragas belonging to the Bilawal thaat bear characteristic resemblance to the musical scale of the thaat, but have distinctly unique features of their own in terms of the arrangement of notes as well as the time of the day they are associated with. Raga Bilawal is the prime raga of this thaat.
Pattern of swara-s in the thaat- Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni
1. Raga Shukla Bilawal All seven notes are used Both the flat and sharp 'Ni' are used All other notes are regular Prime note is 'Ma' Arohana (ascent)- Sa, Ga Ma, Re Pa, Dha Ni Sa(h) Ararohana (descent)- Sa(h), Ni Dha, Ni Dha Pa, Ma Ga Ma Re Sa
2. Raga Bilawal Prime raga of the thaat All seven notes are used All notes are regular Prime note is 'Dha' Arohana (ascent)- Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa(h) Avarohana (descent)- Sa(h) Ni Dha Pa Ma Ga Re Sa
3. Raga Shankara Five notes in the ascent and six notes in the descent 'Re' and 'Ma' don't feature in the ascent; 'Ma' doesn't feature in the descent All notes are regular Prime note is 'Ga' Arohana (ascent)- Sa Ga, Pa, Ni Dha, Sa(h) Avarohana (descent- Sa(h) Ni Pa, Ni Dha, Ga Pa, Ga Re Sa
4. Raga Durga Five notes are used as 'Ga' and 'Ni' are excluded All notes are regular Prime note is 'Ma' Arohana (ascent)- Sa Re Ma Pa Dha Sa(h) Avarohana (descent)- Sa (h) Dha, Pa Ma Re Sa
Glossary(f)- Flat note, (s)- Sharp note, (h)- high scale, (I)-Low scale Sa-(c), Re-(D), Ga- (E), Ma-(f), Pa-(G), Dha-(a), Ni-(b)
The 10 thaat-s are: Bilwal, Kalyan, Khamaj, Bhairav, Purvi, Marwa, Kafi, Asavari, Bhairavi and Todi.
Although entire ragas in themselves, the thaat-s provide a framework for the system as a whole. The notation of a thaat, which describes its musical framework, is quite different from the characteristic arrangement and progression of notes during rendition through a raga. It is exposition that gives a raga its pakad (peculiarity) and chalan (character). Every thaat consists of seven notes or swara-s but with different characteristics (chalan).
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