MUSIC
DICTIONARY OF SOME SOUTH INDIAN MUSICAL TERMS
A collection of terms in South Indian Music ( with a few terms from North Indian Music ) with their meaning
or description has been provided.
MADAKKU
: repetition of a word or a line in a musical composition, each time with
a different meaning.
MADHYAMA
KAALA : medium speed or moderate tempo.
MADHURA
BHAKTHI : to regard themselves as nayakis and worship God as
nayaka.
MANDALAM
: a group or collection.
MANGALAM
: a song of salutation, sacred that is sung at the end of a performance.
MANODHARMA
SANGITA : creative music.
MARGA SANKITA
: ancient music - said to exist in Heaven.
MELAKARTA
: a parent scale from which many janya raagas are derived.
MISRA
: mixed
MUKTAAYI
: the final or the concluding part of a raaga aalaapana.
MURCHCHANA
: one of the ten gamakas.
MUSIC THERAPY
: the science of curing diseases through music.
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