murchanan.

Brit.

/ˈmʊətʃənɑː/,

/ˈməːtʃənə/, U.S.

/ˈmʊrtʃəˌnɑ/,

/ˈmərtʃənə/

Forms: 1800s– murchana, 1900s– murcchana, 1900s– murchhana.

Origin: A borrowing from Sanskrit. Etymon: Sanskrit mūrchanā.

Etymology: < Sanskrit mūrchanā solidification, proliferation, an ascending and descending scale, a smooth glide up and down an octave, †a glide of any sort < mūrch- to become solid, thicken, increase.

Music.

In Indian music: each of the fourteen scales of seven notes which start on one of the seven notes of either of the two grama (roughly comparable to modes in Western music). Also (occasionally): a grace note, an ornament.

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1891 C. R. Day Mus. & Mus. Instruments S. India ii. 23 The s'rutis are arranged in their different svâras, or intervals of the scale, according to the ‘murchanas’. Of what these murchanas consisted is very doubtful.

1914 A. H. F. Strangways Mus. Hindostan iv. 112 There are seven modes (mūrchanā) of each of the two grāmas, i.e. fourteen in all; but only seven of these fourteen are in practical use under the name of jātīs, species.

1921 H. A. Popley Music of India vi. 85 We shall notice..the graced notes, these being called in the north Mūrchanā.

1972 P. Holroyde Indian Music 274 According to Tagore the murchhana is the extending of the note ‘to another in the ascending as well as the descending scale (like an appoggiatura) without any intermediate break in the disposition of the srutis in the interval’.

1980 New Grove Dict. Music IX. 92 Each of the seven possible..scalar heptads in each grāma was called a mūrcchanā; each mūrcchanā, then, was a specific scale type, equivalent to the Western ‘octave-species’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	murchana
释义	murchanan. Brit. /ˈmʊətʃənɑː/, /ˈməːtʃənə/, U.S. /ˈmʊrtʃəˌnɑ/, /ˈmərtʃənə/ Forms: 1800s– murchana, 1900s– murcchana, 1900s– murchhana. Origin: A borrowing from Sanskrit. Etymon: Sanskrit mūrchanā. Etymology: < Sanskrit mūrchanā solidification, proliferation, an ascending and descending scale, a smooth glide up and down an octave, †a glide of any sort < mūrch- to become solid, thicken, increase. Music. In Indian music: each of the fourteen scales of seven notes which start on one of the seven notes of either of the two grama (roughly comparable to modes in Western music). Also (occasionally): a grace note, an ornament. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > Indian scales raga1789 ragini1789 grama1807 jati1834 murchana1891 mela1957 society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > ornament in Indian music murchana1891 1891 C. R. Day Mus. & Mus. Instruments S. India ii. 23 The s'rutis are arranged in their different svâras, or intervals of the scale, according to the ‘murchanas’. Of what these murchanas consisted is very doubtful. 1914 A. H. F. Strangways Mus. Hindostan iv. 112 There are seven modes (mūrchanā) of each of the two grāmas, i.e. fourteen in all; but only seven of these fourteen are in practical use under the name of jātīs, species. 1921 H. A. Popley Music of India vi. 85 We shall notice..the graced notes, these being called in the north Mūrchanā. 1972 P. Holroyde Indian Music 274 According to Tagore the murchhana is the extending of the note ‘to another in the ascending as well as the descending scale (like an appoggiatura) without any intermediate break in the disposition of the srutis in the interval’. 1980 New Grove Dict. Music IX. 92 Each of the seven possible..scalar heptads in each grāma was called a mūrcchanā; each mūrcchanā, then, was a specific scale type, equivalent to the Western ‘octave-species’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1891
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