ROMANTIC INSTRUEMENT

Indian classical music is one of the oldest forms of music in the world. It has its roots in diverse areas such as the ancient religious vedic hymns, tribal chants, devotional temple music and folk music. Indian classical music are on a one-note-at-a-time basis. Indian music is divided into two major classes of Hindustani (Northern Indian) and Carnatic (Southern India), the origins and fundamental concepts of both these types of music are the same. The form of presentation may vary between the two as well as from one gharana to another. The fundamental concepts that have to be understood at the outset are those of swara (musical note), a raga (a melodic concept of scale of notes) and tala (beats of timing or rhythm). Times music presents the musical compositions of the greats like Ustad Bismillah Khan Amjad Ali Khan, Ashish Khan and Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Hariprasad Chaurasia and Dr. N Rajam in the Hindustani style to illustrate the important features of Indian music.