| Notes and Quotes: |
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| Harrison: Klaus
Voorman had a harmonium in his hourse, which I hadn't played before. I
was doodling on it, playing to amuse myself, when 'Within You Without
You' started to come. The tune came initially, and then I got the first
line ['We were talking']. It came out of what we'd been discussing that
evening. (Dowlding 1989: 174) |
| Martin:
Again, George's contribution, "Within You Without You," was, with all
deference to George, a rather dreary song, heavily influenced by his obsession
with Indian music at that time. I worked very closely with him on the
scoring of it, using a string orchestra, and he brought in some firends
from the Indian Music Association to play special instruments. I was introduced
to the dilruba, and Indian violin, in playing which a lot of sliding techniques
are used. This meant that in scoring for that track I had to make the
string players play very much like Indian musicians, bending the notes,
and with slurs between one note and the next. (1979: 203) |
| Harrison: The best
part of it for me is the instrumental solo in the middle which is in 5/4
time — the first of the strange [Indian] rhythm cycles that I caught onto
— 1-2, 1-2-3, 1-2-1-2-3. (Dowlding 1989: 175) |
| Hindustani Instruments |
| Tambura: |
A four, five,
or six-stringed long-necked lute. The tambura is a plucked
drone and has no fret board (the strings are unstopped). The characteristic
"buzzing" sound quality is a result of the rounded bone bridge. |
| Tabla: |
A pair of kettle
drums (one wooden, the other metal) played with the fingers. The
right-hand drum is tuned. The drum's clear pitch is a result of
the loaded head which emphasizes selected harmonics. The drummer
changes the pitch of the lower drum by manipulating the pressure
of his hand on the drumhead. |
| Dilruba: |
A long-necked
bowed lute with four melody strings and at least eight sympathetic
strings. The player "bends" notes by forcing the strings along the
raised curved frets. |
| Surmandal: |
A board zither
with 16 or more parallel strings tuned to the scalar notes of the
melody. |
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| Schedule |
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30 October, 2017
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