Swaralipi, the Glossary
Swaralipi (স্বরলিপি) is any system used in sheet music in order to represent aurally perceived music through the use of written notes for Indian classical music.[1]
Table of Contents
8 relations: Equal temperament, Indian classical music, Music, Pingala, Pythagorean tuning, Raga, Sheet music, Svara.
- Musical scales
Equal temperament
An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such that the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same.
See Swaralipi and Equal temperament
Indian classical music
Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian Subcontinent.
See Swaralipi and Indian classical music
Music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.
Pingala
Acharya Pingala (c. 3rd2nd century BCE) was an ancient Indian poet and mathematician, and the author of the, also called the Pingala-sutras, the earliest known treatise on Sanskrit prosody.
Pythagorean tuning
Pythagorean tuning is a system of musical tuning in which the frequency ratios of all intervals are based on the ratio 3:2.
See Swaralipi and Pythagorean tuning
Raga
A raga (also raaga or ragam or raag) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a melodic mode. Swaralipi and raga are Hindustani music terminology.
Sheet music
Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece. Swaralipi and Sheet music are musical notation.
Svara
Svara (Sanskrit: स्वर svara) is a word that connotes simultaneously a breath, a vowel, the sound of a musical note corresponding to its name, and the successive steps of the octave or saptaka. Swaralipi and svara are Hindustani music terminology, Indian classical music, musical notation and musical scales.
See also
Musical scales
- Anhemitonic scale
- Chinese musicology
- Chord-scale system
- Chromatic scale
- Chromaticism
- Circle of fifths
- Diatonic and chromatic
- Ditonic scale
- Enharmonic scale
- Escala nordestina
- Euler–Fokker genus
- Gandhara (svara)
- Genus (music)
- Gongche notation
- Gypsy scale
- Harmonic scale
- Harmonization
- Hexatonic scale
- Istrian scale
- Japanese musical scales
- Jazz scale
- List of musical scales and modes
- Major and minor
- Minor scales
- Modes (music)
- Modulation (music)
- Monotonic scale
- Music written in all major or minor keys
- Musica enchiriadis
- Neapolitan scale
- Octave species
- Pentatonic scale
- Pyknon
- Quarter tone
- Rishabha (svara)
- Saptak
- Scale (music)
- Scale degrees
- Scolica enchiriadis
- Shi'er lü
- Slendro
- Svara
- Swaralipi
- Synthetic mode
- Synthetic scale
- Tetrachord
- Tetratonic scale
- Tritonic scale
- Universal key