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▪ I. raga|ˈrɑːgə|
Also raag, rag |rɑːg|.
[a. Skr. rāga, colour, passion, melody; Hindi rāg, a mode in music, music.]
1. In Indian music, a melodic type which provides a framework for improvised melodies; such an improvised melody. Also fig.
1788W. Jones in Asiatick Researches I. 264 The beautiful allegories of the Hindus in their system of musical modes, which they call Rágás, or Passions, and suppose to be Genii or Demigods. 1807Asiatick Researches IX. 447 The Indian Rágas and Ráginís are fixed respectively to particular seasons of the year and times of the night or day. 1891C. R. Day Music & Mus. Instr. S. India & Deccan ii. 23 Mode and râga are..perfectly distinct from each other. Ibid. 24 In almost all these works a somewhat similar classification of the râgs and râginis has been adopted. 1924E. M. Forster Passage to India vii. 80 The song is composed in a raga appropriate to the present hour, which is the evening. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 289 Although the scales of folk music may vary from the simple pentatonic scales of the Hebridean to the complicated ragas of the Hindu, the same outlook on tonality is implied. 1944W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. 332/2 The ragas fall under the classification of melody-types... A raga is a much more specialized tonal frame than a mode; it prescribes..not only a scale and a center-tone (amsa), but also the avoidance of certain tones. 1958Times 30 May 16/5 The Indian raga provides the structure for an improvisatory kind of music which..approaches the articulation of speech. 1962I. Holst Tune iv. 53 It is impossible to memorize fragments of a raga during a performance. 1967‘La Meri’ Spanish Dancing (ed. 2) v. 67 The Rag (roughly, melody) has a definite mood throughout. 1969Sunday Standard (Bombay) 3 Aug. (Magazine Section) p. iv/6 Instead of outlining the form of his ‘raag’ in sinuous, unbroken contours he seems to have preferred segment sketching. 1970W. Burroughs Speed vii. 151 On stage, a couple of young guys played a mediocre raga. 1971J. Mandelkau Buttons vii. 81 ‘The Truth is the Only Law!’ It's sewn on the inside shoulder of William's jacket and has become my daily prayer. My holy raga. 1972P. Holroyde Indian Music 277 Ragas developed as an arrangement of intervals so that seven notes are in a certain relationship with each other and thus define a melody. 1975Guardian Weekly 25 Jan. 21/3 The score by Alan Lloyd can best be described as Schubertian raga, a non-stop prelude (vamp till ready) to the verbal fugues on the stage. 1977Y. Menuhin Unfinished Journey xii. 258 A raga is a scale-cum-melody, a given sequence of notes whose interrelationships are already determined.
2. attrib. and Comb., as raga form, raga quality, raga system; raga rock, rock music characterized by improvisation, etc., in the style of a raga.
1968Jrnl. Mus. Acad. Madras XXXIX. 7 The classical music of India has thus for its aim the delineation of the Raga-forms.
1972Last Whole Earth Catalog (Portola Inst.) 3/1 Fuller's lectures have a raga quality of rich nonlinear endless improvisation full of convergent surprises.
1966Melody Maker 30 Apr. 12/1 America's..Byrds come up with a new formula! Raga-rock, based on Eastern musical forms. 1967P. Welles Babyhip (1968) xv. 108 ‘Leave me alone,’ she said, ‘you're some kind of sex fiend. And anyway, I'm looking for raga rock.’ She turned the station to another.
1957A. Bake in New Oxf. Hist. Mus. I. iv. 213 In the classical râga system such a new creation usually bears the name of its parents, as, for instance, Megh-Malhâr.
▪ II. raga
obs. form of rajah. |