Discuss the “sound world” of India’s classical music with reference to melody (include ornamentation, scale, relation to drone, and specific pitches (“notes”) in a melody.?
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• A single melody unfolds against an unchanging drone (a continuously sounding center tone and a tone a fifth above in a characteristic, nasal timbre).
• The melody is intensely ornamented with bends and slides, and with the notes of its scale zigzagging through intervals unfamiliar to Western ears.
• A note "can be a tiny constellation of ornamented pitches" in contrast to the fixed, discrete pitches used as notes in Western melodies (such as on the piano).
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