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6.6 Lakshana geethams: a raga describing itself
Learn a lakshana geetham and say what it tells you about its raga.
A lakshana geetham has words that describe the raga it is in — its parent scale, its notes, sometimes its mood. It is a piece of theory written as a song, which is how this tradition taught theory long before anybody wrote a textbook.
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Read the words of a lakshana geetham and find the raga's description inside them.
Geetam · ReferenceLearn the piece as you would any other geetham.
Say what the words tell you that the notes alone would not.
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