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SWARAS
AND SWARASTHANAS
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seven swaras are mythologically associated with the sounds produced by certain
animals and the names of the swaras are related to the names of
these animals. The name Madhyamam appears to be related to the central or madhya location in
the seven notes and Panchamam is most probably derived from the number five, denoting the position
of the note. We observed earlier that doubling the pitch of a swara by
a factor of two results in going up in pitch by one octave. Thus, doubling
the pitch of Sa (say Sa1) results in another Sa (Sa2) which is one octave higher than our original Sa.
A further doubling produces Sa3 which is one octave higher than Sa2 and two octaves above Sa1. Three
times the original Sa produces the Pa located between Sa2 and Sa3. In other words, the pitch of the
swara Pa is one and half times the pitch of the Sa below it (and three
fourths the pitch of the Sa above it). |
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