Dadara Santara
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Track 11 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to This' for Key Stage 3. Also used as track 18 of Saydisc Percussion Around the World.
Traditional music from Rajasthan, from Saydisc album 'Rajasthani Folk Music', performed by Habib and Ramjan Khan (3'47"). Main features: pentantonic scale, drone, rondo, melodic decoration, improvisation, circular breathing.
This piece of Rajasthani folk music features the use of the dadara santara, a double flute with a drone pipe and the dholak, an Indian drum. The three learning tracks of the Track Explorer focus on instrumentation, the drone and pentatonic melody.
Official classification: Listening, Key Stage 3, Pentatonic Scales, India, South Asia, Dadara Santara, Dholak, Drone, Track Explorer, 4b Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - elements and devices, Unit 15. Song, Saydisc Records
Track 18 from Saydisc "Percussion Around the World" - notes from Maureen Hanke. (Also track 11 from Saydisc Listen to This! KS3.) 'The Shepherds' Music' is from Rajasthan and enables the clear sound of the dholak to be heard against the dadara santara, a type of Indian flute.
The dholak ia a double headed cylindrical drum that tapers slightly at each end. One head is usually slightly larger than the other and made of goatskin whilst the smaller head is calf hide. The tension of the heads is regulated by a system of hoops and rings around the edge of the head from which laces are attached down the outside of the drum shell. Smaller rings then placed around adjacent laces regulate the tension of the head.
Official classification: Percussion, Tabla, Timbre, Audio, Key Stage 3, India, Dadara Santara, Dholak, Rajasthan, Indian, Unit 4. Musical cycles, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
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