By: Mit Patel, Nisarg Patel, Pinkal
Patel, Reshma Mohan and Vidhata
Question.
Analysis a piece of music that represents your home culture/country. Song: Maa Tujhe Salaam by A.R. Rahman.
(My respect to mother India)
Video Song
Instruments used in the Song
Tambourine
Guitar
Drums
Keyboard
Rattles
Timbre
• Low to high pitch
• Multiple pitch
• Heterophony
• Polyphony
• Heavy sound
• Melodious
Significance
The lyrics of this music piece are very patriotic and reflects our passion for our country and its culture. At the same time this piece has a bit of western-Bollywood influence which
Indians are very drawn towards
Potential Controversies
A lot of guitar and drums involved and it is more influenced by western structure of music.
Uses of the Song
• Culture: Patriotic events national holidays (Republic day,
Independence day) and is in different Indian languages covering almost all the Indian cultures.
• Historical: This song contains the lyrics of our national song “vande mataram” which is the anthem of India.
About the Song
• It is the largest selling Indian non-film album to date.
• It released on December 9, 1997 by Columbia Records, a music label owned by Sony Music.
• The popularity of the song was such that in 2002, when BBC World
Service conducted an international poll to choose the ten most famous songs of all time from around 7000 songs selected from all over the world, "Maa Tujhe
Salaam" was voted second
• The track also holds two Guinness World Records for being the song performed in the most number of languages. Indian singer Sai "Psychuck" Manapragada performed the track in 265 different languages (individually) and again in 277 languages (with chorus) to achieve this feat twice
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