Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan sings raga

An excerpt of Hindustani vocalist Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan singing a North-Indian raga at the Rubin Museum of Art, June 30th, 2007.

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[sirtophamhatt]

like the lid of an eye opening just slightly, breaking off from a dream in the dark of night, I'll take this vid as a small reminder of the real greatness of this music...thanks for the post...

[kishoriray]

This is a bandish in Raag Marwa, the drut portion.

[kishoriray]

You asked about is it minor or not, the answer is no. Minor notes meaning komal gandhar is must, but in marwa shudh gandhar is used, so major nots re being used.

Moreover the rendition is improvisational as ustad ji is singing the drut bandish part of the recital, and marwa is fixed within the previouly stated notes, now if you do permutation combination of the stated notes within the grammatical boundary of the raga, then it may be called improvisation. [explained by rohandasgupta]

[kishoriray]

marwa -(ascending notes- Ni RE Ga ma ni dha sa.

descending notes- sa ni dha ma ga re sa.

ga - shudh

ni- shudh

re- komal

ma-kori madhyam

dha-shudh.

[kishoriray]

Amazing I see this today for the first time! My Ustadji online!