Alap
World English Dictionary
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| —n | |
| Indian vocal music without words | |
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alap
in the art musics of South Asia, improvised melody structures that reveal the musical characteristics of a raga. Variant forms of the word-alap in northern Indian music and alapana in Carnatic music (where the term ragam improvisation is also used)-are often found
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Alap
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