I recently got this great opportunity to learn lots of good information about South Indian Classical Music. Being an ardent lover of this form of music, i felt great about learning these facts. Though its not at all very new , i am just happy to share these.
Music in any form, being very much associated with our daily routine, the human mind is conditioned to developing its own natural melodic and rhythmic patterns based on the different behavioral, emotional and intellectual abilities. And this is the main reason why different forms of music have a lot of similarity though they all came up at different places at the same time. Being a great source of recreation and entertainment, the different forms of music basically concentrated on the "feel" of the individual listening to it and ancient classical indian music concentrates mainly on what is called "raaga" which is closely similar to the western chords in english music.
There is a lot of similarity between the mathematics involved in the creation of different raagas and the modern hashing technique! Sounds Interesting Indeed!! I was left wondering if most of the stuff we claim to have discovered recently have already been thought about by our ancestors!
The formula used to differentiate the different raagas is called the "katapayadi sutra", an old sanskrit alphabet based system of classifying the different raagas.This method helped to arrive at a number after several considerations and for each of those numbers, a significant name too. Hence we actually have 72 basic raagas which have been classified in groups of 6 each leaving us 12 different groups. Amongst these 12 again, there are two different groups of six each. Its extremely interesting to find out that a lot of premutation and combinations goes into making each of the group of 6 raagas. One can't help but get amazed at the power of mathematics in the development of ancient musicology! The "katapayadi sutra" was thus used to derive specific names from specific numbers where as the Modern Hashing method aims at deriving numbers for specific names.
Music in any form, being very much associated with our daily routine, the human mind is conditioned to developing its own natural melodic and rhythmic patterns based on the different behavioral, emotional and intellectual abilities. And this is the main reason why different forms of music have a lot of similarity though they all came up at different places at the same time. Being a great source of recreation and entertainment, the different forms of music basically concentrated on the "feel" of the individual listening to it and ancient classical indian music concentrates mainly on what is called "raaga" which is closely similar to the western chords in english music.
There is a lot of similarity between the mathematics involved in the creation of different raagas and the modern hashing technique! Sounds Interesting Indeed!! I was left wondering if most of the stuff we claim to have discovered recently have already been thought about by our ancestors!
The formula used to differentiate the different raagas is called the "katapayadi sutra", an old sanskrit alphabet based system of classifying the different raagas.This method helped to arrive at a number after several considerations and for each of those numbers, a significant name too. Hence we actually have 72 basic raagas which have been classified in groups of 6 each leaving us 12 different groups. Amongst these 12 again, there are two different groups of six each. Its extremely interesting to find out that a lot of premutation and combinations goes into making each of the group of 6 raagas. One can't help but get amazed at the power of mathematics in the development of ancient musicology! The "katapayadi sutra" was thus used to derive specific names from specific numbers where as the Modern Hashing method aims at deriving numbers for specific names.
The idea of giving specific names must have been done to aid the memory of the teachers and the learners, since early India took to the oral culture of education. It would be absurd to claim that the first thinkers of the modern hashing methods had no original thoughts. Nevertheless, it is indeed very refreshing to learn that there is in actuality some arguable similarities between the old techniques and the new ones.
