Music

• The music of India includes Carnatic and Hindustani music which have developed over many centuries.
• Bhangra, one of the most recognized forms of Punjab, is based on the drum rhythm of dhol.
• Significant Instruments of Pakistan include Tabla, Dholak, Dholak, Harmonium, and Rubab.
• Music of India also includes several types of folk and popular music.
• One aspect of vocal music uses melismatic singing with nasal vocal quality, as compared to the Philippine music which uses melismatic singing only in chanting epics and the pasyon.
• Rig Veda is sung in the Samagana traditional singing style because of its liturgical importance, Rigveda is counted as first among the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as Vedas.
• Rig Veda is an ancient Indian sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns.
• Some of the verses of Rig Veda are still recited as Hindu prayers at religious functions and other occasions.
• Carnatic music refers to music from South India directed to a Hindu God, which is why it is called "temple music".
• Carnatic music pieces are mainly set for the voice and with lyrics.
• Compositions called krti are devotional songs in Carnatic music.
• Hindustani music goes back to Vedic period times around 1000 BC and further developed in the 13th and 14th centuries AD with Persian influences and from existing religious and folk music.
• Hindustani music is predominantly found in northern and central regions.
• Nasal singing is observed in the vocal music of Hindustani music.
• In North India, the most common style of singing is called khyal, a word which means imagination.
• Ghana is described as a non-membranous percussive instrument but with solid resonators and it is one of the oldest class of instrument in India.
• Sushir, also known as blown air, is characterized using air to excite the various resonators.
• Banam, Esraj, Chikara, Sarangi are referred to as Tala, literally meaning ‘clap;’ variously transliterated as “tal”, “taal” or “taala”, which is a regular, repeating rhythmic phrase, particularly as rendered on a percussive instrument with an ebb and flow of various intonations represented as a "theka" - the common Indian system of rhythm.
• Vitat, described as bowed stringed instruments, are one of the oldest classifications of instruments and yet did not occupy a place in classical Indian music until the last few centuries.
• Bansuri, Shehnai, Shankh, Surpeti are referred to as vina during the old civilization.
• Ghazal are traditional expressions of love, separation and loneliness; it tells about both the pain of loss of the lover and the beauty of love in spite of that pain, considered by many to be one of the principal poetic forms the Persian civilization.
• Ghatam, Karta, Manjira, Nout are described as membranous percussive instruments.
• The class of instruments that are plucked (stringed instruments) include Sitar, Rabab, Gottuvadyam, Ektar, Gopichand.
• The class of instruments that typically comprise Ghatam, Karta, Manjira, Nout are the drums.
• Qawwali is the devotional music of the Chishti Order, a vibrant musical tradition that stretches back more than 700 years, originally performed mainly at Sufi shrines throughout the subcontinent and gained mainstream popularity.
• Punjabi music strengthens the importance of musical instruments in Pakistan, as Punjab is a region in South Asia which is divided into West Punjab, Pakistan and East Punjab, India.
• Pakistan is known for its unique vocals, which have a distinctive Pakistani sound formed with multiple influences not only from various parts of South Asia but also includes diverse elements from Central Asia, Persia, Turkey and the Arab world.