{"id":2161,"date":"2011-11-20T11:38:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T11:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2011-11-21T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T10:25:15","slug":"indian-classical-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/indian-classical-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Classical Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tradition of music is very old in India. First description of music finds its mention in the oldest scriptures in the Hindu tradition called <em>Vedas<\/em> (in plural) which are thousands of years old.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian classical music<\/strong> is spontaneous, elaborate and expressive. It differ slightly from the Western classical music as it uses just-intonation tuning instead of equal-temperament tuning system that Western classical music uses. It has the same 7 notes and each octave is divided into 12 semi-tones. The 7 notes in Hindi are called &#8220;Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa&#8221;\u00a0 in comparison to Western music&#8217;s &#8220;Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do&#8221;.\u00a0 In Indian Classical music, a note is called \u0938\u094d\u0935\u0930 (<em>svar<\/em>), melody is called\u00a0 \u0930\u093e\u0917 (<em>raga<\/em>) and beat is called \u0924\u093e\u0932 (<em>tala<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Indian classical music can be broadly classified into <em>Hindustani classical music<\/em> which is found in North India and <em>Carnatic classical music<\/em> which is found normally in South India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hindustani classical music<\/strong> has two main form <em>Khyal<\/em> and <em>Dhrupad<\/em> and several other classical and semi-classical forms. There may be mix of instruments in composition where stringed instruments like <em>Sitar<\/em> provide the melody and percussion instrument like <em>Tabla<\/em> may provide the beats or an indicator of regular time interval. It mainly focus on the emotions. The expression of these emotions are composed as a <em>raga<\/em> by Hindustani classical musician. I have attached a link from one of my favorite and legendary Hindustani classical musician and instrumentalist, Ali Akbar Khan. (below)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"come back my love - ali akbar khan\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bhXLG1k5USo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hindustani music uses following instruments which include <em>Sitar, Sarod, Surbahar, <em>Shehnai, Sarangi, Santoor, <\/em>Tanpura, Bansuri,\u00a0 Pakhavaj and Tabla<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carnatic classical music<\/strong> in comparison is more complex than Hindustani classical music. It is highly structured in logical classification of <em>ragas<\/em> (melodies) into <em>melakarthas<\/em> (musical scales), similar to Western classical music. It tends to be faster in tempo and shorter as compared to Hindustani music. It has a distinct difference to the Hindustani classical music that the performance has a vocalist as principal performer,whereas Hindustani classical music express more through the instruments. I have attached below, a wonderful piece of composition of Carnatic classical music.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Best of  Carnatic Vocal\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4H85fvHtiSo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Carnatic\u00a0classical music uses\u00a0 following instruments which include <em>Venu, <em>Veena, Mridangam, Kanjira, <\/em>Gottuvadyam, Harmonium, Ghatam and Violin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tradition of music is very old in India. First description of music finds its mention in the oldest scriptures in the Hindu tradition called Vedas (in plural) which are thousands of years old. Indian classical music is spontaneous, elaborate and expressive. 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