It’s sort of ridiculous that I’ve never studied even the very basics of Indian music, like what are the ragas. Thanks to my friend Todd Trimble I’m dipping my toe into it. And it turns out that in Carnatic music, one of the two main kinds of Indian classical music, the 72 Melakarta ragas are just subsets of the usual 12-tone scale!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/melakarta-ragas/