music of india

• largest country in southeast asia
• indian music remains fundamental to the lives of its people
• it serves as a source of spiritual inspiration, and cultural expression
• there are two traditional music of india

  carnatic

  hindustani
• carnatic music if the music of southern india
• carnatic music is directed to the hindu god, thats why its called "temple music"
• hindustani music is music of northern india
• hindustani music goes back to vedic period which was 1000bc
• rigveda is the oldest vedic
• there are 5 elements in india

  1. raga
  2. shruti
  3. tala
  4. laya
  5. melisma
• raga is combination of musical notes
• shruti is the smallest interval of sounds
• tala is the metric cycle with specific number or beats the recur in the same pattern
• laya is tempo
• melisma is a group of notes sung to one syllable of text