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The sublime beauty of Indian ragas

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    How many times have you
    changed a decision
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    to forgive someone
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    after being determined not to?
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    [The influence offer, too]
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    How many situations
    have you felt melancholic
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    and yet good about something?
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    How many times have you felt
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    that someone good-looking was more
    beautiful than the right music played?
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    Do the notes matter?
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    Does the way the scales go up matter?
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    Does it matter if you have heard
    or learned the tune
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    when you were very, very young?
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    [That it gives that nostalgic
    transcranial interaction?]
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    Indian [...] are tried and tested,
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    and these ones I know for sure.
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    So I'm sort of disecting in the lab
    where we play it
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    and shake out the results.
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    You only need to close your eyes,
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    open your hearts --
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    The first tune is based on [Rahn Kamas].
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    It's a very popular Indian tune.
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    It will be played by [... ... Ganesh.]
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    Thank you.
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    [Nasasha] will be singing a tune
    based on [Ran Meg.]
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    Interestingly, there are a lot of stories
    on [Ran Meg Malar].
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    Centuries ago it was sung to bring rains
    to a drought-[...] kingdom.
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    Thank you.
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    [Arraga Kupi] called [amode] this music,
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    because [v....] music is mostly
    on equal [.... ] scales
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    [as] Indian and Arabic music
    has [... ] nuances
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    in many such [....] and [.....]
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    The ascending and descending of notes
    plays a major role in the [.... ...]
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    Very few composers have managed
    to bring out emotional music and miracles,
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    heightening the possibility
    of compositions.
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    The next song,
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    [Asana Musoh],
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    is one such song.
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    You might not know what it means,
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    but you can feel sublime beauty
    the way it's sung.
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    The next song is based
    on [Rack char geh see].
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    It was written by an [Multani] poet
    from 18th century India.
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    I think [Char ko see] has a power
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    to connect to the consciousness
    in a very [empathetic] way.
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    The poem says,
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    "You can break down a mosque,
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    you can break down a temple,
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    you can break down any place of worship,
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    but you should not break
    a believer's heart
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    because in the heart is where
    God really resides."
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    Thank you so much.
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Title:
The sublime beauty of Indian ragas
Speaker:
A.R. Rahman
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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
15:45

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