Indian classical music

Indian classical music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent.  The term Marg Sangeet and Shastri Sangeet are generally used to describe it.  There are two major traditions: the North Indian classical music known as Hindustani, and the South Indian classical music known as Carnatic.  It wasn't until the 15th century that these traditions were different. During the period of Mughal rule of the Indian subcontinent, the traditions separated and evolved into distinct forms. Hindustani music focuses on improvisation and exploration of all aspects of raga, while the Carnatic performances are usually brief compositions with a simple composition base.  However, there are still more common features between the two systems than differences.  Another distinctive classical music tradition from the east of India, two thousand years ago, Odissi music began to evolve.

 There are two basic elements to India's classic music, raga and tala. The raga, based on a varied repertoire of swara (notes including microtones), forms the fabric of a deeply intricate melodic structure, while the tala measures the time cycle.  The raga offers an artist a palette for developing sound melody, while the tala provides them with tools of rhythmal improvisation based on time. The space between the notes is often more important than the notes themselves in Indian classical music, and traditional Western classical concepts such as harmony, counterpoint, chords, and modulation are not used.

Features

 Classical Indian music, the other being film and various styles of pop, regional folk, religious or devotional music, is a genre in South Asia. The raga and the tala are two basic components of Indian classical music. The raga forms the fabric of a melodic structure, and the tala keeps the time cycle.  The raga and the tala are open sources of creativity, allowing a wide variety of possibilities, but the tradition believes that only a few hundred ragas and talas may be fundamental.

Raga

 The central concept of Indian music is the raga, which forms a major part of its expression. According to Walter Kaufmann, the definition of raga may not be offered in one or two sentences though it is a remarkable and significant feature of Indian music.

Tala

 The tala is a metrical structure that repeats in a cyclical rhythm from the beginning to the end of each song or dance segment, making it an analogy to the meters in Western music. [79] talas, on the other hand, possess some qualitative characteristics that are not present in Europe's traditional musical meters. For example, some talas such as the framework of 29 beats with a cycle that takes approximately 45 seconds to complete while performed are much longer than any classical Western meter.

Instruments

• Sitar
• Sarod
• Veena
• Tanpura
• Violin
• harmonium
• tabla