High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A raga is a complex structure of musical melody used in the Indian classical music. Basically, it is a set of rules of how to build a melody. The Sikh holy book, Guru Granth Sahib, mentions several ragas. R?garefers to melodic modes used in Indian classical music It is a series of five or more musical notes upon which a melody is made. In the Indian musical tradition, r?gas are associated with different times of the day, or with seasons. Indian classical music is always set in a r?ga. Non-classical music such as popular Indian film songs or ghazals sometimes use r?gas in their compositions. The word "raga" first occurs in the Brihaddeshi of Matanga (circa second century AD or 5th to 7th century), where he describes it as "a combination of tones which, with beautiful illuminating graces, pleases the people in general". The term raga was defined by Joep Bor of the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music as "tonal framework for composition and improvisation."

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