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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 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...

Tanpura - A Prism for Harmonics

The Tanpura (also referred to as Tambura ) is a musical instrument with an intriguing and also fundamental place in today's Indian Classical music. As you may well know, it is not a le...

Tanpura - A Cornerstone of Indian Classical Music

In the previous article , we looked at the Tanpura from the perspective of sound and showed how the clever combination of the rounded bridge and the cotton thread causes each string to...