The Flavor and Sound of Liberation
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SummaryThe versatile musical functionality of the tabla reflects its utility as an instrument of contemplation. As the rhythmic expression of the drone, the tabla focuses the listener’s attention on the present musical moment. From a psychological perspective, “the basis of listening is the detection of difference.” During a performance, this detection of difference comes into play as the recognition of creative changes in the background of tala and mode. “A constant pattern [of] sound quickly produces a psychological reaction called habituation.” In the cyclical repetition of bol phrases that occurs in tabla accompaniment, the subtle alteration of bol patterns during the development of paltaa (variations) induces an active detection of difference against the habituated drone of the tabla.
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- Music becomes 'concretized time, it is audible time.' To the listener with the right awareness and predisposition, this time-object is an object of contemplation.
- The rasa theory describes how certain conditional factors (vibhavas) give rise to the particular mood of a rasa.
- The aesthetic of tabla music originates in the melody of its bol rhyme
- Such chains of bol, which are expressed through verbal rhyme in parhant, become a melodic rhyme in practice
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