{"id":5514,"date":"2008-11-11T13:20:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T18:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5514"},"modified":"2008-11-11T10:29:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T15:29:51","slug":"easing_tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/11\/easing_tension\/","title":{"rendered":"Easing Tension Through Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was looking on YouTube for the famous version of &#8220;Twinkle Twinkle Little Star&#8221; from the old Bollywood film, <em>Purab aur Paschim<\/em>, to amuse my kid. Instead, I found this:<\/p>\n\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fmdAF4ihedM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fmdAF4ihedM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not just done for comedy, I think (though it is clearly meant to be funny for a South Indian TV audience). Actually, having the same English words applied to the different classical Indian musical styles is an instructive way of seeing the differences in the styles.<\/p>\n\n<p>(Incidentally, what are the first two styles she uses?)<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was looking on YouTube for the famous version of &#8220;Twinkle Twinkle Little Star&#8221; from the old Bollywood film, Purab aur Paschim, to amuse my kid. Instead, I found this: It&#8217;s not just done for comedy, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/11\/easing_tension\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}