It assures raga’s patterned unity. Aurally, the most apparent sponsor of this unity is the drone: “Music is generally rendered with the help of some instrument supplying the drone—the basis ...

Composer Reena Esmail breaks down the difference between raga and tala in Indian classical ... It's stunning to me how vocal a percussion instrument can be. Just like you were saying about singing.

For most people in the West, classical Indian raga music means one instrument, the sitar, and one player, Ravi Shankar. Quite why Shankar came to be considered the greatest modern sitar player over ...

The "raga" is the melodic form ... The sitar, India's most prevalent plucked stringed instrument, has been around for almost 800 years. But it has changed in shape and size.

the typical Keralite percussive instruments giving a traditional flavour to the soft love song. Film songs are aplenty in this scale. The Kafi thaat corresponds to Kharaharapriya raga in ...

Multi-instrumentalist and producer Siddique Ahmed, co-founder of Afghanistan’s first rock band Kabul Dreams, closes the Raga Fest at 8 p.m. on rubab, the national string instrument of Afghanistan, ...

The usage of the mridangam, and traditional kutcheri instruments in this song gives it a very strong classical flavour. It is Ilayaraja who has explored the length and breadth of this raga and ...

The Raga Experience includes an illustrative presentation on the history and mechanics of the sarod and tabla, instruments used in Indian classical music. The event features an artist meet-and ...