Krsna Kirtana Songs est. 2001 www.kksongs.org
Words Starting with T
tablā – (tabalā)
the commonly used kettledrums of
tablī – the soundboard
of some stringed instruments
Tāḍakā – Mārica’s mother,
slayed by Rāma
Takṣa – Bharata’s son
tāla – (lit. “clap”) a
rhythmic cycle (South Indian music = tālam)
tāli – points of
accent in a rhythmic cycle
tamas guṇa – (tamo) mode of ignorance
tamburā
– see tānpurā
tāmbula
– betel nuts
tānpurā
– (“tāna +purā = fill the melody”) a long stringed drone instrument
which resembles a fretless sitar
tantra
– practice of unorthodox and illicit activities
tantrī
vādya – class of instruments that are stringed (some may specify it as
plucked instruments only)
tapasya
– penance and austerity
tār saptaka – upper
octave
Tārā –
Vālī’s wife
tasmā – the
leather-thong lacing using to fasten a drum head on tablā and khol
tattva – constitutional
positions
thāṭ – a parent cycle
in the North Indian system based off of Bhaṭkhāṇḍe’s theories (ten parent cycles
total)
tīntāla
– lit. “three claps”; a common sixteen beat cycle of North Indian music
Tretā
Yuga – the second era in the cycle of cosmic ages; vice is introduced in this
era; the era where Lord Rāmacandra
tritāla
– a North Indian pakhawaj cycle with sixteen beats; some equate it with
tīntāla
Trivikrama
– name of Lord Kṛṣṇa
Tṛṇāvarta
– the cyclone demon who tried to kill Lord Kṛṣṇa
tulasī –
(tulasī-devī) (Ocimum
tenuiflorum) the plant who is dearest to Lord Kṛṣṇa, her
leaves are used in offerings and preparations to the Deities