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Other Backward Class. The Other Backward Class (OBC) is a collective term used by the Government of India to classify castes that are educationally or socially backward. It is one of several official classifications of the population of India, along with general castes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SCs and STs).
A raga ( IAST: rāga, IPA: [ɾäːɡ]; also raaga or ragam or raag; lit. 'colouring' or 'tingeing' or 'dyeing' [1] [2]) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a melodic mode. [3] Rāga is central to classical Indian music and a unique feature of the tradition: no equivalent concept exists in Western classical ...
Grace note. A grace note is a kind of music notation denoting several kinds of musical ornaments. It is usually printed smaller to indicate that it is melodically and harmonically nonessential. When occurring by itself, a single grace note indicates either an acciaccatura when notated with an oblique stroke through the stem, or an appoggiatura ...
Range (music) Written range of a saxophone. In music, the range, or chromatic range, of a musical instrument is the distance from the lowest to the highest pitch it can play. For a singing voice, the equivalent is vocal range. The range of a musical part is the distance between its lowest and highest note .
In music, an anacrusis (also known as a pickup, or fractional pick-up [1]) is a note or sequence of notes, a motif, which precedes the first downbeat in a bar in a musical phrase. [2] ". The span from the beginning of a group to the strongest beat in the group." [9] Anacrusis, especially reoccurring anacrusis (anacrusis motif played before ...
An appoggiatura ( / əˌpɒdʒəˈtjʊərə / ə-POJ-ə-TURE-ə, Italian: [appoddʒaˈtuːra]; German: Vorschlag or Vorhalt; French: port de voix) is a musical ornament that consists of an added non-chord note in a melody that is resolved to the regular note of the chord. By putting the non-chord tone on a strong beat, (typically the first or ...
In music performance and notation, legato ( [leˈɡaːto]; Italian for "tied together"; French lié; German gebunden) indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, the player makes a transition from note to note with no intervening silence. Legato technique is required for slurred performance, but unlike ...
Elements of music. Music can be analysed by considering a variety of its elements, or parts (aspects, characteristics, features), individually or together. A commonly used list of the main elements includes pitch, timbre, texture, volume, duration, and form. The elements of music may be compared to the elements of art or design .