Today in class I learnt about Katapayadi sankhya and how the formula can be used to determine the melakarta raga index number. I was fascinated by it and thought I will blog about it. But I wiki-ed and found 2 amazing sites already loaded with fascinating information.
Melakarta
Melakarta
Katapayadi Sankhya
Its all about mathematics, algorithms and formula. I came to know that one can even determine the complete raga scale just by the name of the raga. Just blew my mind off!!
2 comments:
yes, arithmetics and logarithms! thanks it is intunresting!
I was so surprised! You did not appear the classical music type! Nor did I or do I, I guess.
Pythagoras made the earliest known attempt to use mathematics to study music. See http://music.washcoll.edu/images/pythagoras.jpg for instance.
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