raga

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The hybrid of western saxophone and raga is a bit of an unusual finding in Indian music

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  1. noun A traditional melodic type in Hindu music, consisting of a theme that expresses an aspect of religious feeling and sets forth a tonal system on which variations are improvised within a prescribed framework of typical progressions, melodic formulas, and rhythmic patterns.

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  • The Smith and Soldier ate too much, watched dizzying feats of illusion, and generally had a raga-and-roll good time. —  AEonThree
  • The hybrid of western saxophone and raga is a bit of an unusual finding in Indian music —  WFMU's Beware of the Blog
  • Kamal is the youngest Indian musician to participate in Les 24 heures du raga (The 24-hour Millennium concert) in Paris, France. —  Screen News
  • This means that Killa Kela is likely to bring his Spit Kingdom band along with him and together create an amazing cocktail of hip hop, drum'n'bass, raga-jungle and breaks. —  News on www.kyivpost.com
  • ( "Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar" were born in Suffragette City), Doors (one can sing the line "Riders on the storm" to the raga-rock intro to "Little Death"), T-Rex ( "We're Gonna Boogie"), the New York Dolls ( "Dolls [Sweet Rock and Roll]") and a whole lotta Stones with a bigger bang than anything on their latest CD, if not in decades. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
 

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  1. Sanskrit rāgaḥ, color, musical mode.

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  1. Sanskrit rāga (Hind, rāg), coloring, passion, loveliness, beauty (of voice or song), a musical mode, from √ raj, be colored, be red, be pleased, etc.
 

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