Henry Cowell - Symphony No. 13 "Madras" (Score Video, complete)

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If you like this piece, you may also find interest in Colin McPhee's "Tabuh-tabuhan", based on Balinese gamelan music and similarly written by a composer who spent significant time studying that tradition: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnLQYYWsr554ias

[@JoricioCagel]

thank you! ❤

[@PhilipDaniel]

Love this, but it sounds Anatolian rather than Indian.

[@towardthesea_]

That's because a lot of Hindustani music came from the Mughals, who were a Turkic people who later migrated into India - you'll find a lot of similarities in the modes that are used in Indian ragas and Turkish maqams, and in many countries in between. As someone of Indian origin with extended family who perform mostly Carnatic music (though I'm not an expert on it at all), the (Indian) tabla and jalataranga are used in a fairly idiomatic manner, and the first two movements - which are named after Carnatic musical forms - are more or less developed similarly to how they are in the actual tradition. As I mentioned, Cowell did spend a few months in then Madras (which the piece is named after), now Chennai, studying Carnatic music - he's not just writing after some vaguely "Eastern" style. It shows.

[@tommyron]

@@towardthesea_ This is great to know Pranav. Thanks.