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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 (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 Tuning Systems (3) – Bharat and Sarang Dev's 22 Shrutis

In part 2 , we reconstructed the Shadaj Gram scale using two different perspectives and showed the results to be mutually consistent. Shadaj Gram is also quite old, probably dating bac...

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...