Thread by @Auro_Mere

"Music is a means of expressing certain thoughts, feelings, emotions, aspirations...
It is the origin of the music, the inspiration from beyond, which is important;
It is not purely the sounds, it is what the sounds express.."
- The Mother
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1) The Mother's Music

“Love is the key-note,
Joy is the music,
Power is the strain,
Knowledge is the performer,
the infinite All is the composer and audience.."

- #SriAurobindo, Thoughts & Glimpses
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1.1) The Mother's Organ

"I don't try to play music: it's simply a sort of meditation with sound.."
- The Mother
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Music - The Mother's Organ-play on 29th Feb. 1960, the first anniversary of the Supramental descent..

1.2) The Ashram's Musician

"When I heard his music for 1st time, something suddenly opened up & I was right in middle of the place..from which true Harmony comes"
—Mother after listening to Sunil's piece below
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Music—New Year, 1965
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1.3) Auroville's Choir

"The new music is looking for instruments who have the opening to bring it down. It should not be mental but spontaneous & as a result of meditation & direct opening.." - Mother's words as remembered by Narad

Music - Om Choir, 2019

2) Indian Music

"Indian music, when there are good musicians, has almost always a psychic origin; for example, the rāgas have a psychic origin, they come from the psychic.
The inspiration does not often come from above.."

- The Mother, 27 May 1953
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2.1) The Origin

"..ते ह देवा ऊचुर्हन्तासुरान्यज्ञ उद्गीथेनात्ययामेति
The gods were weaker, mightier the Titans..
& the gods said,
Let us by the उद्गीथ overpass the Titans in the yajna"
बृहदारण्यकोपनिषत् (1.3.1) by #SriAurobindo

Music—Sāmagāna by Udgātā-s

2.2.a) History - Classical (<1200 AD)
(Gandharva music - Śramaṇa Influence - Codification)

"The new evolution attempted to bring the mass into the temple of the spirit.." - #SriAurobindo
incarnateword.in/cwsa/20/indian…

Music - Dundubhi-Natyam, PurviKalyani Raga

2.2.b) History - Medieval - Hindustani stream
(Bhakti Compositions - Muslim Influence - Folk Traditions)

"New religious or mystic forms & disciplines attempted to seize (also) the emotions & the senses" - #SriAurobindo (ibid.)

Music - Raga Darbari Sargam

2.2.c) History - Medieval - Carnatic stream
(Preservation - Purandara Dasa's Influence - The Three Jewels)

"The enlarged secular turn was compensated by a deepening of the intensities of psycho-religious exp.." - #SriAurobindo (ibid.)

Music - Raga Abheri

2.2.d) History - Modern
(Popular/Folk Music - Global Influence - Cinema)

"3rd stage should render him capable of..a generalised spiritual life…
But unhappily it synchronised with a decline of Ind. culture" - #SriAurobindo (ibid.)

Music - Rajasthani Folk

2.3.a) Concepts - Nāda (The Sound/Vibration/Word)

"It's vibration of pure Existence, instinct with the perceptive & originative power of infinite & omnipotent consciousness" - #SriAurobindo
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Music - Mantra-Japa (Om Ma Sri Aravinda)

2.3.b) Concepts - Shrutis & Swaras (The Micro-tones & the Notes)

"The Word has its seed-sounds.." - #SriAurobindo (ibid.)

Music - The 22 Shrutis, by Dr. Vidyadhar Oke

2.3.c) Concepts - Saptak/Gram-Murchhana/Jati-Mela-Thaat/Alankar (Notes arranged in Octaves/Sequences/Scales/Ornamentation)

"The Word has its rhythms..It's no disordered vibration.."- #SriAurobindo (ibid.)

Music - Thaat Kafi (Komal Ga & Ni), Devaki Pandit

2.3.d) Concepts - Raga & Tala (Melodic Framework & Rhythm)

"The Word moves out into great cosmic measures,—& acc. to the rhythm is the law, arrangement, harmony, processes of the world it builds.." - #SriAurobindo (ibid.)

Music - Bhatiyar Raga, Adi Tala