{"id":7082,"date":"2014-02-13T10:28:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T15:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=7082"},"modified":"2014-02-13T10:28:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T15:28:41","slug":"an-obscure-genre-comic-verse-about-indian-classical-music-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/an-obscure-genre-comic-verse-about-indian-classical-music-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"An Obscure Genre: Comic Verse About Indian Classical Music, part 1."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Intonational Variation in Oral Tradition \u2014 or, Tutti Shruti&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In bygone days in India, the emperor Akbar<br \/>\nHad in his court a singer who was known both near and far.<\/p>\n<p>He had a wondrous repertoire, there was no doubt of that \u2014<br \/>\nBut every note in every raga came out slightly flat.<\/p>\n<p>Because his voice was out of tune, they called him Besur Khan,<br \/>\nHe founded a tradition, so his gayaki lives on.<\/p>\n<p>For he had some disciples, and they disciples too \u2014<br \/>\nAnd all of them sing ragas in a loud, discordant moo.<\/p>\n<p>And if you ask them nowadays, &#8220;why do you sing so flat?&#8221;<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll say, &#8220;it&#8217;s our gharana.&#8221;<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s all there is to that.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Intonational Variation in Oral Tradition \u2014 or, Tutti Shruti&#8221; In bygone days in India, the emperor Akbar Had in his court a singer who was known both near and far. He had a wondrous repertoire, there was no doubt of that \u2014 But every note in every raga came out slightly flat. Because his voice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,34,7,9,310],"tags":[1323,1322],"class_list":["post-7082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-india","category-indian-music","category-music","category-personal","tag-dagarel","tag-doggerel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7083,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions\/7083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}