For this assignment we were to search youtube for a song featuring one Hindustani (North Indian Classical Music) and comment on the musical elements of the song. The only other restriction other than this was that the song could not have been featuring Ravi Shankar. So after a good bit of searching (mainly due to the lack of info supplied by the uploaders) I finally decided to blog about a song by the band Tihai.
The three instruments used throughout the different sections of this Hindustani are the sarod, the tablas, and the alto saxophone. Also it should be stated that this song has been cut up into three sections.
The first section of the Hindustani has the saxophone acting as a soloist followed by a sarod solo (not counting the drones being produced by the sarod during this time). While I’m unable to state whether or not the saxophone and the sarod were using melodic improvisation (as I’m unfamiliar with the genre) based on the atmosphere I would lean toward the existence of improvisation.
The second section once again has the sarod producing drones however this section of the Hindustani has relies much more on a drumming accompaniment provided by the tablas to supplement the music by the saxophone and the sarod instead of the solos in the first section. Also as with custom the tablas player took advantage of the different sounds that could be produced from the different parts of one’s hand along with the different parts of the drum.
The final section maintains much of the same instrumental line up (including drones) as the second but showcases a much quicker bpm than the second.
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