1. Version 3: Benjy Wertheimer (esraj and tabla) and Steve Gorn (bansuri)
Instruments: bansuri, esraj, tambura and tabla
Bansuri: The bansuri is a flute from India made from a single hollow shaft of bamboo with six or seven finger holes.

2. Version 3: Benjy Wertheimer (esraj and tabla) and Steve Gorn (bansuri)
Instruments: bansuri, esraj, tambura and tabla
Esraj: A string instrument with a medium sized sitar-like neck with 20 heavy metal frets. This neck holds on a long wooden rack of sympathetic strings. There are four main strings, which are bowed.

3. Version 3: Benjy Wertheimer (esraj and tabla) and Steve Gorn (bansuri)
Instruments: bansuri, esraj, tambura and tabla
Tambura: A long necked plucked stringed instrument found in different versions in different places. The tambura has no frets, as only the open strings are played as a harmonic accompaniment to the other musicians. It has four or five wire strings, which are plucked one after another in a regular pattern to create a drone.

4. Version 3: Benjy Wertheimer (esraj and tabla) and Steve Gorn (bansuri)
Instruments: bansuri, esraj, tambura and tabla
Tabla: A pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres.

5. Version 3: Benjy Wertheimer (esraj and tabla) and Steve Gorn (bansuri)
Structure:
Three movements-
Alap Gat 1 (slow) Gat 2 (fast)
Watch the video of V3 and annotate the score or write notes in your green book

6. Detailed Analysis of Version 3:
Features
Time
Section
Features
0.00 – 8.35
Alap
(part 1)
Slow and unmeasured section.
Drone is established by the tambura which plays the notes Sa (C) and Pa (G) (tonic and dominant).
The bansuri (flute) then comes in, playing the rag. This develops from trying out the various pitches in short fragments to a more developed melodic part.
0.00 – 4.41
Gat 1
(part 2)
Slow tempo.
Lyrical unaccompanied melody for the bansuri and the tabla comes in at 0.31 playing the seven-beat rupak tala.
Rupak tal (7 beats):
Wave Clap Clap

7. Detailed Analysis of Version 3:
Features
Time
Section
Features
Gat 1
(part 2)
This fixed composition then starts at Following this the music becomes more agitated and dramatic.
Improvisation takes over around the gat, while the tabla player also decorates the original tala pattern.
The bansuri then plays the gat repeatedly whilst the tabla player improvises.
At 3.32 the two instruments swap function = bansuri improvises and tabla accompanies.
Several tihais are heard to mark out section ends. The last of these leads into the second gat at 4.41
4.41- end
Gat 2
(part 3)
A fast tempo (drut) in ektal tala.
Ektal tal (12 beats):
clap clap wave clap wave clap
Tabla sets a fast tempo, bansuri plays an elaborate gat containing wide ranges of pitch, scalic runs and slides.
Fast scale passages are called tans.

8. Test your understanding
You will now attempt a GCSE style question based on the 2 versions you have learnt today.
There is silence at the beginning of the track giving you time to read and understand the questions on the worksheet
There are pauses between playings of the extracts
Good luck!

9. Answers 1a
i) Sarod
ii) explores the notes of the raga scale ascending and descending gradually and in free rhythm/unmetred feel including the use of improvisation and melodic decoration/use of ornaments
iii) Alap 1b
i) Tabla
ii) Tala (or Rupak Tala)
iii) Gat;
1c) Any two of:
- slow v fast tempo;
- free v more rhythmic
- improvised vs fixed composition
- no pulse v steady pulse;
1d) D, F, G, B

10. Consolidate
Discuss
Evaluate your learning

11. L3: PLENARY – SELF ASSESSMENT
KEY WORDS – gharana, raga, pentatonic, rasa, bols, matras, syncopation, tala, meend/mind, tan, timbre, Sitar, Tambura, Tabla, Sarod, Sarangi, Cymbals, Alap, Gat, Jhalla
I know the terminolgy used in Indian Music
I can identify different Indian musical instruments and describe their roles within different performances of Rag Desh
I can use specific musical vocabulary relating to certain playing techniques used in Indian music
I can talk about all 3 versions of Rag Desh musically
I can attempt a “Section A” style listening question on Rag Desh

12. And finally Complete the summary Homework- preparation for test!!
Revise all we have learnt about Rag Desh- focus on:
Structure of a raga performance (characteristics)
Instruments
Terminology