Page 43 - NAMAH-Apr-2024

Namah Musical Notes and Emotions

of view of the clarity and objectivity of the on the tonality chosen.
emotions aroused, complicates things and does
not make it possible for a generalised and safe Based on this principle, we are going to list
application of music on a therapeutic level, the possible emotions related to the intervals.
bringing into play personal factors linked to For this purpose we shall use the interval
individual experiences. The monodic modal nomenclature system used in Nāda Yoga, which
system, more elementary and primitive (in a is a simplification of the one in force in the
good sense), instead allows a safe cataloguing Carnatic musical system of south India. In the
process of the various musical intervals (notes). following table you can see the sequence and
In fact, it is the interval that allows you to denomination of the intervals in the different
arouse and evoke a psychic-emotional state, systems.
and not the name of the note, which depends

Fig.1: South India (Carnatic) notation system, in three octaves (saptaka): bass (mandra), middle
(madhya) and high (tar)

Fig.2: North India (Hindustani) notation system

43