Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-pipa!janzen From: janzen@pipa.DEC (Thomas E. J. LMO4/B5 279-5421 ECL Test) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: East Indian music Message-ID: <1909@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 16:50:46 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.1909 Posted: Mon Apr 29 16:50:46 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 1-May-85 06:55:28 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 4 I am puzzled. My sources had told me that the raja was a set rhythm, about a bar long, say, repeated throughout. say it's 11/8 in the groups 3,3,3,2. The Talas is the "mode," say. What's up? Thomas Janzen DEC Marlboro MA