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Historical milestones in Indian Classical Music

In order to understand how Indian tuning systems and musical scales developed and evolved into the Indian Classical music of today, it is necessary to trace the history of Indian Classi...

Indian Tuning Systems (1) – Sama Gana Scale

In an earlier article , we looked at the historical evolution of Indian Classical music. Let us turn to the fundamental principles behind Indian Classical music and look at the role of...

Indian Tuning Systems (2) – Shadaj Gram

In part 1 of this series on Indian Tuning Systems , we reconstructed the Sama Gana scale. This scale is really old, probably dating back 3000 years , and can be regarded as the true...

Indian Musical Scales

In a related series of four articles ( 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 ), we reconstructed two historically significant tuning systems which were used in Indian Classical music: The 22 note divisio...