Indian music is said to be one of the oldest traditions of music uninterrupted in the world. It is said that the origin of this system back to the Vedas (ancient Hindu scripts). Many different legends grew about the origin and development of Indian classical music. Such legends go a long way in demonstrating the importance that music has in defining the culture of India.
But the advent of historical research and modern culture has also given us a good perspective on the field. It has shown that Indian music has developed in a very complex interaction between different people of different races and cultures. It seems that the ethnic diversity of India today has existed from the earliest times.
Basis for Indian music is "Sangeet". Sangeet is a combination of three artforms: vocal music, instrumental music and dance. Although these three artforms originally derived from a single field of stagecraft. The third day form has divided into individual artforms complex and very delicate.
The present system of Indian music is based on two important pillars: fabric and mentally. Rag is the melodic shape while tal is rhythmic.
Rag rough may be equated with the term Western mode or scale. There are seven note system is regulated in a manner not dissimilar Western scale. But when we look closely we see that it was very different from what we know.
Para tal (rhythmic forms) is also very complex. Many common rhythmic patterns exist. They revolve around repeating patterns of beats.
Interpretation of the fabric and mentally not all the same all over India. Today there are two main traditions of classical music. There are northern and southern India Indian tradition. North Indian tradition known as Hindustani Sangeet and southern India called Carnatic Sangeet. Both systems are fundamentally the same but different in practice nomenclature and performance.
Hindustani music is the kind of music that was born and developed in India and the surrounding region. Music is more emphasis on games or musical instruments membraphone. Hindustani music developed in the State of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The development of Indian music starts approximately from the 2nd century AD. Aryans who migrated to India exerted great influence on the development of music in India. Music for the nation of India has its own meaning, which has had enormous influence on the magical, religious, literature, science, and other arts.
Starters and inspiration for Indian music is worshiping the gods and goddesses. According to legend, Lord Shiva who created the sounds, rhythms and dances and he cuts through the wise and taught to humans. A teacher named Narada is a spiritual musician and singer who wrote treatises on music naradasiksa. Teacher named Barata who wrote Natyasastra containing about music, dance and drama.
A tradition since the first unwritten very difficult to track for evaluation. But the sources of ancient Indian music can be found in Sarna Verda. Contains an overview of the songs sung by the priest relic brahma to the Vedic deities.
Verda also explained about the seven notes of the scale, and 3 types of instruments are Vina (musical instrument with seven strings), Veni (flute), and dundubhi (drums). After the Vedic period, entered the Indian classical period appeared their theory on the grama (scale), murchanna (modes), and jati (species). Music gradually became more purposeful and kompleks.sebelum Christian era music has evolved as secular music in India.
The presence of the Islamic religion is also very influential on the development of music in India where there is a fusion of two different cultures, namely India with the culture of Persia, Arabia, to Egypt. New types of music and musical instruments emerging. In this era Vina instrument developed into Sitar. One of the most interesting of the development of music in the Islamic period is merging with the musical art of painting.
Variety Music India
In India, there is a type of music called Raga (which means: color or mood) used in Indian classical music. Type raga music is played at different times or is usually associated with the season. Classical music used in India it is a sport, and always sports. If classical music is not like in the movies india popular or ghazals sometimes wear body in their musical compositions. Ragini is the term if that played the music is a woman.
Raga describe a form of exercise melody regeneration. It is also a set of rules to create a melody. Describing the rules for upwards (aaroha) and down (ayroha) scale which Swaras should seek more notes and phrases that should be used or should be discarded and so further. The result is a framework that can be used to combine or improvise melodies, allowing for an endless variety with a set of notes.
Modern Indian music consists of:
Remixes, where old songs are mixed with fast beats make them popular among the younger generation. This usually played in discos and at parties.
Fusion is the kind of music where Indian classical music combined with other forms of western music to create a blend of eastern and western music
Indi pop which is basically an Indian version of Western pop music. There are a number of young artists who sign with a music company to make an album of pop songs in Hindi and other regional languages.
Indian music has a more modern western influences. In fact even the basics of Indian classical music, raga and taal, has been removed from the latest composition by a composer using the western scale and tone. Even the newly generated music brought in an older style and integrate it into the West chord, thus creating a fusion of East meets West kind of music.
See also the other Traditional Music here : Japanese Music
See also the other Traditional Music here : Japanese Music
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