Raga Tradition

art material performance music tradition or form core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

South Asian classical music traditions, tradition

Canon Rationale

A core South Asian music tradition, included for raga as a melodic, theoretical, devotional, improvisational, and performance framework. The tracked unit must be a documented listening/study selection, not a claim to complete the whole living tradition.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 98.

Evidence

handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'raga'.
museum record: Smithsonian Folkways learning and recording resources for Indian classical music.

Audit Flags

community context required, performance context required, version dependency

Sensitivity Flags

living tradition, performance context required

Completion unit: listen to a named, documented raga performance or study unit with tradition context. This record does not imply that a living tradition can be completed.