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All About Talas in Carnatic Music - Acharyanet

Acharyanet, Acharyanet (Chitravina N. Ravikiran / Indian Fine Arts Society)

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Type
article
Level
beginner
Language
en
Cost
free
Topics
tala, angas, jati, nadai, gati

What it is

A teaching page on tala: the three angas in common use, hand actions, the seven tala families, the five jatis (3, 4, 5, 7, 9), the 35 talas, the five gatis (nadai) and the total of 175 talas.

Why it is useful here

A teaching-school source, independent of Wikipedia and the other tala pages, for the counts of jatis, talas and nadai.

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Type at least two letters. Try a raga name, a tala, or a word like "gamaka".