Raag Mala
Grade 4
© 2012, GIA Publications, Inc.
Item #: B-B07413 Status: Available
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Description:
This bundle includes:
1. A digital PDF of the Teacher Resource Guide from the Teaching Music textbook
2. An mp3 recording of the work
Written in a single continuous movement, the 333-measure work is approximately thirteen minutes in length.
Colgrass subtitled the piece “Music of India through Western ears,” explaining… I don’t attempt to replicate Indian music in this piece... Nor do I intend to create a hybrid of East-West musical styles... Instead my aim is to filter Indian music through my Western musical experience and cast it in a new way.
Regarding the genesis of the work, the composer writes,
Raag Mala was inspired by the many concerts of Indian classical music I have heard over the years. A music society called “Raag- Mala”–meaning a garland of ragas—brings the best classical musicians and singers to Toronto every year. I have often left these concerts singing the ragas I had heard and embellishing on them from my own imagination. Raag Mala is the result of those musings.
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