THE INDIAN MUSIC

The music of India includes multiple varieties of folk, popular, pop, classical music andR&B. India's classical music tradition, including Carnatic and Hindustani music, has a history spanning millennia and developed over several eras. It remains fundamental to the lives of Indians today as sources of spiritual inspiration, cultural expression and pure entertainment. India is made up of several dozen ethnic groups, speaking their ownlanguages and dialects, having distinct cultural traditions.
According to Indian Scriptures, music originated in the hands of Lord Brahma who also created the Vedas. This knowledge was subsequently imparted to Lord Shiva who in turn blessed Goddess Saraswati with this supreme form of art. GoddessSaraswati is known and worshipped as "Veenapustakdharini" which may be interpreted as the one holding a veena - which is a musical

Instrument - andpustak meaning book and representing knowledge. Goddess Saraswati taught this
form of art to Narada - a well known sage in the sevice of Lord Vishnu - and he passed this wisdom on to the all the heavenly deities and apsaras (Nautch Girls of Heaven). Later, revered saints like Bharata, Hanumant etc. brought it to the mortal world.

TALA
Tla, Taal or Tal (Sanskrit tl, literally a "clap", also transliterated as "tala") is the term used in Indian classical music for the rhythmic pattern of any composition and for the entire subject of rhythm, roughly corresponding to metre in Western music, though closer conceptual equivalents are to be found in the older system of rhythmic mode and its relations with the "foot" of classical poetry, or with other Asian classical systems such as the notion of usul in the theory of Ottoman/Turkish music. Tala is the rhythmic time cycle of india. The tempo is called laya. The laya may vary from fast (druata) to a medium (Madhya) or slow (vilambita) in hindastani music. The unit of time is called matra and in karnatak music its called akshara. The tala is divided into rhythmic group called ANGAS. EXAMPLES: Jhaptal 10- beats

Ektal 12 beats The shortest tla is called DADRA, which is composed of 6 beats. The TITAL is a long tala composed of 16 beats.

RAGA A raga (Sanskrit rga , Tamil rgam , Kannada "Raaga" one of the melodic modes used in Indian classical music. A raga uses a series of five or more musical notes upon which a melody is constructed. However, it is important to remember that the way the notes are approached and rendered in musical phrases and the mood they convey are more important in defining a raga than the notes themselves. In the Indian musical tradition, rgas are associated with different times of the day, or with seasons. Indian classical music is always set in a rga. Non-classical music such as popular Indian film songs and ghazals sometimes use rgas in their compositions. Joep Bor of the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music defined Raga as "tonal framework for composition and improvisation."[2] Nazir Jairazbhoy, chairman of UCLA's department of ethnomusicology, characterized ragas as separated by scale, line of ascent and descent, transilience, emphasized notes and register, and intonation and ornaments.[3]
the music of Indian uses melodies which are base on tone structure called ragas. Araga is a combination of scale and a melody . eavh raga has its own mood such as happiness,sorrw or peace. The different ragas are meant to be played at different times of the day or year. There are towo principal tones of the raga;VADI and SAMVADI: TONAL SYSTEM OF INDIA Sa D Ri E Ga F Ma G Pa A+ Dha B Ni C Sa D

, Malayalam rgam

literally "colour, hue" but also "beauty, melody"; also spelled raag, raaga, ragam)[1] is

The smallest interval perception to the ear is called shruti, in the western music . its called microtones . Here is an example of an Indian scale (that) and a raga BHAIRAVI THAT

BHAIRAVIRAGA

TABLA

BHAYA

THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT OF INDIA There are two basic drums in indian music. The tabla and bhya of the north (hindustani) and the mridanga of the south (kamatak). Tabla is the name for a pair of drums ,the larger drum called the bhaya which has a metal body and the smaller one the tabla has a wooden bo

TABLA

BHAYA

The smallest interval perceptible to the ear is called shruti, in the west music , its called microtones

MRIDANGA

The bansuri ,a side blow cane flute is a melodic instrument of the north . another instrument is the shahnai . an oboe type of instrument. In the west ,they have the nagasvaram or nagasvara. A larger double reed oboe type instrument.indian has a variety of chordophones. In these instrument three kinds of a string may be found; melodic string, drone sting, and symphatetic vidrators 1. TAMBURA unfrettend lute, used as a drone;used by both south and north.

2. SITAR the most popular instrument in northen india; in additional to four string and three dromes the sitar may have as many as 13 string

3. Vina instrument of the south with four melody sting and 3 drone string

4. SARANGGI bowed fiddle melodic instrument, a Hindustani instrument

INDIAN MUSIC
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MAM TEODORO

MRIDANGA

TAMBURAN

SITAR