hindustani music
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Listen: Classical or semi-classical? These thumris show categorising musical genres lacks logic
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: Compositions in sargam geet – a music form used to teach the grammar of raags to beginners
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: A poem and qawwali celebrate Diwali – but classical compositions about the festival are rare
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: Rajasthani classic ‘Kesariya Baalam’ crosses musical borders with these four varied takes
Aneesh Pradhan
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‘Hot Hindustanis Here’: When Indian classical music and jazz came together for a radical experiment
Anu Kumar
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Listen: Slow compositions set to Dadra show the versatility of the taal
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: Maestros add colour to the Dadra taal through creative variations
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Begum Akhtar sway you to the rhythms of Dadra taal
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: Latafat Hussein Khan, Khadim Hussein Khan, KG Ginde perform rare varieties of raag Saarang
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: Vocal and instrumental renditions of the raag Badhans Saarang
Aneesh Pradhan
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Reliving Gandharva Mahavidyalaya’s glory days with a duet by Narayanrao Vyas, Vinayakrao Patwardhan
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: Dhuns set to the Kaharvaa taal come alive in these sitar and shehnai recitals
Aneesh Pradhan
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A young YouTuber is teaching thousands of Indians how to listen to classical music
Archana Nathan
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Listen: Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Jagdish Prasad and Shobha Gurtu perform thumris set to Kaharvaa taal
Aneesh Pradhan
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Photos: Treatises on Hindustani music from Akbar’s reign that shaped music theory for centuries
Katherine Butler Schofield
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Listen: Rajasthani folk singers present their take on the Kaharvaa taal
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: The challenging raag Bilawal comes alive in these two sarod recitals
Aneesh Pradhan
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Listen: Vilayat Khan and Ravi Shankar present their interpretations of raag Bilawal
Aneesh Pradhan
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For Brahmins, by Brahmins: How (and why) Carnatic music became such an elite preoccupation
Kamala Ganesh
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Listen: A classic composition in raag Bilawal – interpreted three ways
Aneesh Pradhan