How to Use raga in a Sentence

raga

noun

• Tamil south whose heady origins can be traced to the incense-and-raga days of the 1960s.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 23 July 2021
• Onto the Voyagers’ golden record was placed music from every corner and pocket: a raga; a Pygmy song from Zaire; bagpipes from Azerbaijan — the works.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Dec. 2021
• Featuring other former members of John’s band, the resulting album combined free-form jazz with the textures of Indian raga and shades of Alice’s roots playing gospel in the churches of Detroit.
  — Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2021
• In the long-limbed first movement, the solo violin traces one idea after another (Adams once compared this to Indian raga) in an ever-evolving, never-ending melody.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2021
• While there’s no missing elements of maqam, free jazz, Turkish melody, Indian raga and more, the 80-minute suite’s achievement is building an epic journey that makes each ingredient far less meaningful than the sweeping whole.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 1 Feb. 2018
• There’s a meditative quality to the songs, which mix elements including raga, Americana and jazz.
  — Aaron Carnes, sacbee, 13 Apr. 2018
• His playing drew on country, jazz, blues, surf-rock and raga; his compositions almost always set up a contrapuntal dialogue of guitars with distinct tones, colluding or contending.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2023
• The 11-minute score, inspired by classic Indian music, begins like a raga finding its tones and shortly explodes like an orchestral supernova in a wash of microtones before returning to its quiet origins.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• Widely considered one of the greatest guitarists in history, Mr. Beck shifted seamlessly between genres, recording albums that drew on hard rock, heavy metal, jazz fusion, blues, funk, electronic music and Indian raga.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
• The afternoon concert captured here—the first time anyone had performed these two ragas in Paris at the appropriate time of day—makes an effective showcase for his microtonal precision, ingenious phrasing, and penetrating timbre.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 10 Jan. 2018

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