Music
I recently (late 2002) started trying to understand what music is, why people like it, and what exactly people like. I had never tried singing before and quickly discovered that the expanse of my vocal chords was under one octave. Hitting the correct note is not easy either. But practice helps. Being curious, I started investigating different ways of making music without getting fully trained (not to make the job seem simpler, but thinking that making ones hand dirty will help me understand it better). What follow are various links that I stumbled upon, and some pieces that I have been making. I started with mswlogo which is terrific and soon moved on to midi:perl which is even better.
External Links
Articles by Rajan ParrikarList of ragas
Some fundamentals (thaat, raag etc.)
music primer (karnatik music)
SAWF pages on specific ragas:
Bhoopali (and Deshkar) S R G P D
Bhairavi
MIDI links:
MIDI-PERL
Channels
My stuff
index of my midi creationsindividual harmonium notes corresponding to particular midi numbers I used these to check where my saa is
starting point for tests I am devising to help myself get trained in listening to music
Files playable using mswlogo.exe
hansdhwani
abhogi
yaman
Music notes