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Suladi Sapta Tala · 10 aksharas

Chatusra-jati Matya

Also called: Chatusra Matya

Confidence: high Last verified:

Structure

I4 O I4: 10 aksharas in one cycle.

I1beat223344O1beat2waveI1beat223344
10 aksharas. I = laghu, O = drutam, U = anudrutam. Highlighted box = the beat that starts each anga.
  1. 1 beat
  2. 2 2
  3. 3 3
  4. 4 4
  5. 5 beat
  6. 6 wave
  7. 7 beat
  8. 8 2
  9. 9 3
  10. 10 4

Computed tones, evenly spaced. Real singing uses gamakas and may tune notes slightly differently.

Explanation

Chatusra-jati Matya is one of the 35 talas of the Suladi Sapta Tala scheme. Its pattern is the Matya tala formula (I4 O I4), and the chatusra Jati makes each Laghu 4 beats long. That gives 10 aksharas in one Avarta .

How it is counted: A clap and three finger counts, a clap and a wave, a clap and three finger counts.

The totals of all 35 talas were compared with three published sources (see "How this was checked").

How it is counted

A clap and three finger counts, a clap and a wave, a clap and three finger counts. That is 10 aksharas in all. A laghu is a clap followed by finger counts (here 3), a drutam is a clap followed by a wave, and an anudrutam is a single clap.

A tala's beats can each be split into 3, 4, 5, 7 or 9 parts (the nadai; 4 is the usual). For this tala that makes 30 parts per cycle in tisra nadai, 40 parts per cycle in chatusra nadai, 50 parts per cycle in khanda nadai, 70 parts per cycle in misra nadai, 90 parts per cycle in sankirna nadai.

Where it is used

  • 4 songs on this site's raga pages are in this tala, for example: Balambike Pahi (Muthuswami Dikshitar, raga Manavati); Sarasa Dala Nayana (Swati Tirunal, raga Gowri); Brhannayaki Nannu (Syama Sastri, raga Madhyamavathi).

Ragas with the most songs in this tala: Asaveri (1), Gowri (1), Madhyamavathi (1), Manavati (1).

How likely you are to meet it

●●● (rating 3 of 3: 1 = met very often)

Rating 3 of 3 (editorial, a rough guide to how often you are likely to meet this tala): 4 of the songs listed on this site's raga pages (taken from karnatik.com) are in it. A 1 means met very often (100 or more) and 3 means met rarely (fewer than 10). It says nothing about how hard the tala is to keep, which depends on speed and on the song.

Related talas

How this was checked

  • Sources agree: Chatusra-jati Matya has the structure I4 O I4 and 10 aksharas. Sources: Tala System; Tala (music). Generated from the anga formula and the jati, then compared with the formula printed for it in Online Bharatanatyam's table and the total printed for it in Wikipedia's matrix. Both match.
  • Partly agree: A laghu is a clap and finger counts, a drutam a clap and a wave, an anudrutam a single clap. Sources: Talas - The Sapta Tala System; Tala (music). The two sources agree on the claps and finger counts; they describe the second beat of the drutam differently (a wave, or a second clap with the palm up).

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