Product Description
The
word rāga literally means colour,
and from that also passion or emotion.
The musical term rāga refers
to a performance, within the melodic and structural conventions of Indian
classical music, that evokes a particular emotion. Rāga
Jogiya Kalingra "Aroma of Saffron" evokes a mood of wonder:
It is night-time.
Strong breezes blow through purple fields of the beautiful
saffron flower, its red stigma the source of the worlds most expensive
spice, releasing wafts of powerful fragrance.
This
fully composed Rāga Jogiya Kalingra
"Aroma of Saffron" is a solo performance piece for piano lasting around 16
minutes. It is a fully fleshed-out
version of the musical material from the 12th rāga/raag in the book How
to Play Indian Sitar Raags on a Piano (2016) by British composer John
Pitts, and is suitable for advanced pianists.
Indian rāgas have an extraordinary musical
heritage dating back several centuries (from the area that is now India,
Pakistan and Bangladesh) - a truly unique musical genre of fascinating
melodic beauty and rhythmic intricacy freely combining elaborate composed
melodies with carefully rehearsed improvisation.
With improvisation being such an important element in the performance of
Indian
rāgas, sheet music of a through-composed and
fully-notated
rāga may seem like a
contradiction in terms. However, this
piece, with its notated sections of improvisation, is designed to serve two
purposes: 1) as a model example of how to follow the ample instructions in
rāga improvisation for owners of copies
of
How to Play Indian Sitar Raags on a
Piano; and 2) simply as a performance piece in its own right for classical
pianists who are used to playing entirely from written music.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.