Jaunpuri
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Jaunpuri is a rāga
Raga
A raga is one of the melodic modes used in Indian classical music.It is a series of five or more musical notes upon which a melody is made...

 in Hindustani classical music
Hindustani classical music
Hindustani classical music is the Hindustani or North Indian style of Indian classical music found throughout the northern Indian subcontinent. The style is sometimes called North Indian Classical Music or Shāstriya Sangeet...

 in the Asavari
Asavari
Asavari is a Hindustani classical raga. It belongs to the Asavari thāt and is performed in the morning hours.-Structure:Arohana: S R m P d S'Avarohana: S' n d P m P g R SVadi: dhaSamavadi: gaImportant Anuvaadi: PJaati: Audav-Sampoorn...

 thaat
Thaat
A thāt is a mode in northern Indian or Hindustani music. Thāts always have seven different pitches and are a basis for the organization and classification of ragas in North Indian classical music.- System :...

. Some experts like Pandit Omkarnath Thakur
Omkarnath Thakur
Omkarnath Thakur was an Indian educator, musicologist, and Hindustani classical singer. He is famously known as "Pranav Rang", his pen-name.Thakur was born 1897 in a village in the Princely State of Baroda into a poor military family...

 consider it indistinguishable from the shuddha rishabh Asavari
Asavari
Asavari is a Hindustani classical raga. It belongs to the Asavari thāt and is performed in the morning hours.-Structure:Arohana: S R m P d S'Avarohana: S' n d P m P g R SVadi: dhaSamavadi: gaImportant Anuvaadi: PJaati: Audav-Sampoorn...

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The name of the rāga associates it with Jaunpur
Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh
Jaunpur is a city and a municipal board in Jaunpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.Jaunpur district is located to the northwest of the district of Varanasi in the eastern part of the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. According to the 2001 census, Jaunpur district had a population...

 in northern Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...

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The arohana
Arohana
Arohana, Arohanam or Arohan, in the context of North Indian Classical Music and South Indian Classical Music, is the ascending scale of notes in a raga...

 is S R m P d m P d n S' and the avarohana
Avarohana
An Avarohana, Avarohanam or Avarohan in Indian classical music terminology is the descending scale of any raga. Each raga has an avarohana and arohana. The notes descend in pitch from the octave tonic down to the lower tonic...

is S' n d P d m P g R S. It is usually performed in the late morning (9AM-12 noon).
The Pakad is "m P n d P, m P g, R m g

Important recordings

most probably the oldest recording is of Abdul Karim Khan from 1905
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