What is the difference...

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Posted: 17 years ago

...between mukhda and antara?

how does one recognizes it?

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Dhruvie

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Posted: 17 years ago

"Mukhda" is the beginning of the song, and "Antara" is the paragraph(s)..

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Posted: 17 years ago

Mukhda is the face of a song which gets repeated several times in a song mostly has same lines.

Antara follows Mukhda and are stanzas with different lines.

This is general definition. There are exceptions too.

Mukhda and Antara are called pallavi and anupallavi in Carnatic music.

Edited by Maya_M - 17 years ago

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gopalbhai

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Posted: 17 years ago

Mukhda or Sthayi is the starting stanza of the songs and notes are usually in the middle or low octaves. This stanza gets repeated after singing any subsequent stanzas.

The Antara is the second or subsequent stanza which moves usually at higher notes compared to Sthayi or Mukhda.

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Dhruvie

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Posted: 17 years ago

Maya_M & Gopalbhai,

That was a very beautiful explanation in technical terms 👏 👏

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Appa Rao Hoare

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Posted: 17 years ago

You both have explained it very well and in very simple terms Maya_M & Gopalbhai.

I was going to write the same thing and then I saw your posts.

Hope this explains Dia. 😃

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Posted: 17 years ago

i was thinking that mukhda was the begining of the song...and antara was the ending...but knew that i was wrongg ... tnx everyone for clearing out my confusion 😳

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advil

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Posted: 17 years ago

Originally posted by: 2smart4u
i was thinking that mukhda was the begining of the song...and antara was the ending...but knew that i was wrongg ... tnx everyone for clearing out my confusion 😳

So this means..you never really paid attention to my earleir thread on the classical song glossary..😉😆