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v. t. e. Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent. [ 1 ] It is generally described using terms like Shastriya Sangeet and Marg Sangeet. [ 2 ][ 3 ] It has two major traditions: the North Indian classical music known as Hindustani and the South Indian expression known as Carnatic. [ 4 ]
According to the Natya Shastra, a rasa is a synthetic phenomenon and the goal of any creative performance art, oratory, painting or literature. [11] [12] Wallace Dace translates the ancient text's explanation of rasa as "a relish that of an elemental human emotion like love, pity, fear, heroism or mystery, which forms the dominant note of a dramatic piece; this dominant emotion, as tasted by ...
This is a list of various Ragas in Hindustani classical music.There is no exact count/known number of ragas which are there in Indian classical music.. Once Ustad Vilayat Khan saheb at the Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Festival, Pune said before beginning his performance – "There are approximately four lakh raags in Hindustani Classical music.
Gamaka (music) Gamaka (Hindi: गमक / Urdu: گمک) (also spelled gamakam) refer to ornamentation that is used in the performance of North and South Indian classical music. [1] Gamaka can be understood as embellishment done on a note or between two notes. Present-day Carnatic music uses at least fifteen different kinds of ornamentation. [2]
While ragas in Hindustani music are divided into thaats, ragas in Carnatic music are divided into melakartas. A raga (IAST: rāga, IPA: [ɾäːɡɐ]; also raaga or ragam or raag; lit.'colouring' or 'tingeing' or 'dyeing'[ 1 ][ 2 ]) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a melodic mode. [ 3 ]Rāga is central ...
Hindustani classical music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent 's northern regions. It may also be called North Indian classical music or Uttar Bhartiya shastriya sangeet. The term shastriya sangeet literally means classical music, and is also used to refer to Indian classical music in general. [1]
Vadya (Sanskrit: वाद्य, vādya), also called vadyaka or atodya, is one of the three components of sangita (musical performance arts), and refers to "instrumental music" in the Indian traditions. [1][5][6] The other two components of sangita are gita (vocal music, song) and nritya (dance, movement). [1][7][4] In the general sense ...
Svara (Sanskrit: स्वर (svara) is a word that connotes simultaneously a breath, a vowel, the sound of a musical note corresponding to its name, and the successive steps of the octave or saptaka. More comprehensively, it is the ancient Indian concept of the complete dimension of musical pitch. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Most of the time a svara is ...