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    India has one of the oldest musical traditions in the world, with music believed to be a gift from the gods. Indian classical music has its roots in the Vedas, ancient Hindu scriptures, and is centered around oral teaching from a guru. It utilizes rhythmic cycles called tala and melodic forms known as raga. A variety of instruments are used in both northern and southern Indian classical music, including string instruments like the sitar and veena, percussion like the tabla and mridangam, and wind instruments like the bansuri flute.

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    India has one of the oldest musical traditions in the world, with music believed to be a gift from the gods. Indian classical music has its roots in the Vedas, ancient Hindu scriptures, and is centered around oral teaching from a guru. It utilizes rhythmic cycles called tala and melodic forms known as raga. A variety of instruments are used in both northern and southern Indian classical music, including string instruments like the sitar and veena, percussion like the tabla and mridangam, and wind instruments like the bansuri flute.

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    India has one of the oldest musical traditions in the world, with music believed to be a gift from the gods. Indian classical music has its roots in the Vedas, ancient Hindu scriptures, and is centered around oral teaching from a guru. It utilizes rhythmic cycles called tala and melodic forms known as raga. A variety of instruments are used in both northern and southern Indian classical music, including string instruments like the sitar and veena, percussion like the tabla and mridangam, and wind instruments like the bansuri flute.

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    INDIAN MUSICAL

    CULTURE
    •India is the inheritor
    of one of the oldest
    and most evolved
    music system in the
    world.
    •They believed that
    music was a gift from
    heaven.
    •They also believe that
    music was created by
    the Indian gods Shiva
    (the destroyer),
    Brahma (the creator),
    and Vishnu (the
    preserver)
    INDIAN MUSIC
    VEDAS
    •A religious chants
    which were sung
    without
    accompaniment.
    RIG VEDA
    •Is a sacred hymns
    that developed and
    integrated to the
    Veda.
    Important Aspects
    That Form “Heart”
    OF The Musical
    Tradition Of India
    GURU

    •Teaches the Veda


    through oral
    tradition.
    •Some consider
    choosing one’s guru
    more important than
    choosing one’s
    partner in life.
    VINAYA
    •Teaches students to
    be humble towards
    elders, or those who
    are in authority.
    SADHANA
    •Means practice and
    discipline, involves
    complete faithfulness
    in the craft.
    ELEMENTS OF
    INDIAN MUSIC
    TALA

    •Is known to be
    rhythmic time cycle
    of Indian music.
    SAM
    •it is the first beat of
    tala.
    KHALI

    •Is the empty beat.


    TALI

    •It is the accented


    beat.
    •The tala is divided
    into smaller
    rhythmic patterns
    called AGNAS.
    •Each kind of tala has
    a specific number of
    beat pattern.
    DADRA

    •It is the shortest


    kind of tala which is
    only six beats.
    TINTAL

    •It is the longest kind


    of tala which is 16
    beats.
    AESTHETIC
    MELODIC FORM
    RAGA

    •It is the name of the


    pitch system used in
    Indian classical
    music.
    Example of Raga

    •Desh- evening and


    seasonal (rainy)
    •Sarang- Early
    afternoon raga.
    INDIAN MUSICAL
    INSTRUMENTS
    GHATAM

    •Is a percussion
    instruments made
    out of clay
    GHATAM
    TABLA
    •Is a pair of drums
    most common and
    popular in Northern
    India.
    •It is made of wood
    and has a head made
    of stretched animal
    skin.
    TABLA
    MRIDANGAM
    •It is the classical
    drum of Southern
    India.
    •Mridangam literally
    means “clay-body”
    MRIDANGAM
    VENU
    •It is a flute with
    eight holes, found in
    the Southern part of
    India
    VENU
    BANSURI
    •A flute with a six
    holes and it is a flute
    from Northern part
    of India.
    BANSURI
    VEENA
    •It is the most
    distinctive
    instrument in
    Southern India.
    VEENA
    SITAR
    •It is the most popular
    stringed instrument in
    Northern India.
    •It is made of teakwood
    and seasoned gourds.
    SITAR
    SAROD
    •Is a musical
    instrument that is
    smaller than the sitar.
    •It has a metal finger
    board with no frets.
    SAROD
    TAMBURA
    •It is a drone
    instrument made of
    jackwood.
    •It has a long unfretted
    neck which has four to
    six tuning pegs
    inserted into upper
    end of the resonator.
    TAMBURA
    SARANGI
    •It is the most popular
    stringed instrument
    that is used to
    accompany vocal
    music.
    SARANGI
    SARINGDA
    •It is a bowed fiddle
    similar to the
    sarangi.
    SARINGDA
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    LISTENING

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