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Jatin Agarwal

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Swar is nothing but a musical note. There are seven Standard Notes in Indian Classical Music as given below. We call these notes as "Shuddha Swar". Shuddha Swar: Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni. They are also called Shadja, Rishabh, Gandhar, Madhyam, Pancham, Dhaivat and Nishad respectively.
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Swaris nothing but amusicalnote. There are seven Standard Notes in Indian ClassicalMusicas given below. We call these notes as "ShuddhaSwar". ShuddhaSwar: Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni. They are also called Shadja, Rishabh, Gandhar, Madhyam, Pancham, Dhaivat and Nishad respectively. read less
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Swar is a sound/pitch or in wester term what we call note.
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Swar is the Pillars of Sangeet
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Swar is the seven notes in music Like some of us know it as (Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni) and then Sa again being an Octave above, which is the same note as the first.In western music that could be like (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti) - (C, D, E, F, G, A, B) as an example.
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There are two types of Swar: The first is as everyone mentioned, musical notes. Saptaswara, seven Swar. The second is Swar in Marathi language, vowels. They are 13 in number, for example, a, aa, I, ee, u, etc. I hope this answers your question.
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The word Swar is derived from Sanskrit word Svar which means sound.There are different types of sound but sound which is soothing to ear and which is musical is known swaras or Sur.Swar mean a note in the Octave.The seven basic notes of scale(swaras) in Indian music are named as Shadja,Rishabh,gandhar,madhyam,Pancham,Dhaivat...
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The word Swar is derived from Sanskrit word Svar which means sound.There are different types of sound but sound which is soothing to ear and which is musical is known swaras or Sur.Swar mean a note in the Octave.The seven basic notes of scale(swaras) in Indian music are named as Shadja,Rishabh,gandhar,madhyam,Pancham,Dhaivat and Nishad etc.Raga is a basis of melody and Tala is the basis of rhythm. read less
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