ABSTRACT
Mixed jathi nadai bhedam is a technique whereby two different accents alternate systematically whilst a constant nadai is superimposed on each frame provided by the accents. Pedagogically and creatively, this device lays a bridge between the polytempi concept of nadai bhedam and the vast and complex world of anuloma-pratiloma combinations. In the chapter on nadai bhedam, tisra and khanda were used as the initial gati that produced a frame for a nadai bhedam. All frames take chatusra as the underlying gati over which the nadai is superimposed. Mixed jathi nadai bhedam tends to be a short passage in only one layer with no preparation or resolution. The main element in this device is that every phrase is always repeated in both frames. Karnatic musicians think that a continuous development of phrasing would completely obscure the different frames and that the feeling to be achieved of a continuous change of tempo would be lost.
