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Gamaka refers to ornamentation used in Indian classical music to give character to each raga. Nearly all Indian musical treatises describe gamakas, which involve variations in pitch through oscillations between adjacent and distant notes. There are different types of gamakas in Hindustani and Carnatic music, with Carnatic music categorizing ten ornamentation classes into three major groups. While gamakas are essential to Indian music, their complex melodic movements can be difficult to notate using a fixed
- Author
- Mohit Anand
- Language
- EN