[net.music.classical] East Indian music

janzen@pipa.DEC (Thomas E. J. LMO4/B5 279-5421 ECL Test) (04/29/85)

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