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Carnatic Music Terms

• Viruttam

Viruttam is a devotional verse or phrase sung (without talam) in an impromptu choice of rāgam or rāgamālika usually before a song. The rāgam (or last rāgam in case of rāgamālika) is usually the same as that of the song that follows.

• Manōdharma

Manōdharma is the concept of impromptu or spontaneous improvisation, which is one of the important aspects of Carnatic music. There are many types of improvisations, likeRāgamĀlāpana, Thānam, Niraval, Viruttam and Kalpanaswaram.

Western Music Terms

• Consonance

The simultaneous sounding of two or more tones which produce an effect of stability or harmoniousness. Exactly which combinations of tones are considered consonant varies considerably among different cultures and has changed considerably during the history of Western music. Definitions of consonance may also be found in acoustical theories from Pythagoras to Helmholtz. Intervals (the distance from one note to another] considered consonant in the common practice of tonal music are unisons, octaves, perfect fifths and fourths, and both major and minor sixths.

• Counterpoint

The art of combining two or more musical lines those are to be played or sung simultaneously. These lines may be said to be "in counterpoint" with each other. The term is in some ways synonymous withpolyphony, although counterpoint is most commonly used for Baroque music; polyphony for music from the Medieval and Renaissance periods

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