Article Title：Ravikiran's concept of melharmony: An inquiry into harmony in South Indian ragas
Abstract：
While most internationally known Indian musicians have ventured into fusion, many have felt limitations, for indigenous musical values and principles tend to be altered or ignored in spirit of collaboration. Chitravina N. Ravikiran has proposed a concept called melharmony to help guide the use of harmony in South Indian classical music. Melharmony suggests that voice leading should be derived from the melodic and combinational structure of the raga. To this end, we study ragas to reveal the harmonic potential of their melodic structure. We consider the combinational potential of ragas and their scales, their networks of pitch classes, their hierarchy of salient tones, and the chords derivable from them.
Keywords: carnatic music; Indian music; harmony; set theory; arranging
DOI: 10.1525/mts.2006.28.2.255
Source：MUSIC THEORY SPECTRUM
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