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Indian music typically contains no harmony, can be completely improvised, and is rarely written down. So how do Indian musicians manage to play together? In this segment, we’ll learn about rhythmic patterns called taal, music unique to certain communities and even times of the year, and if deep-rooted musical traditions can continue as India undergoes fast-paced growth and modernization.
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Indian music typically contains no harmony, can be completely improvised, and is rarely written down. So how do Indian musicians manage to play together? In this segment, we’ll learn about rhythmic patterns called taal, music unique to certain communities and even times of the year, and if deep-rooted musical traditions can continue as India undergoes fast-paced growth and modernization.
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drut Gat in Madhya Teental Raga Bimpalasi | Amjad Ali Khan | Raga bhimpalasi : Drut gat in madhya lay teental. | Navras Records | 0 | 00:00 |
| Dam Mast Qalandar | Rhythms of Rajasthan | Recorded by an ArtsEdge producer in a Kennedy Center rehearsal room. | n-a | 2011 | 00:00 |
| Panchaksatpita | U. Srinivas | Carnatic Melodies . | Avm Audio | 1992 | 00:00 |
| Venkatachalanilayam | U. Srinivas | Carnatic Melodies. | Avm Audio | 1992 | 00:00 |
| Raga Bageshri | Vishwa Mohan Bhatton | Mohan's Veena. | Sense World Music | 2006 | 00:00 |
| Halariya | Dariya Dina | Musician Communities of Rajasthan - the Manganiar. | Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology | 0 | 00:00 |
| Undo Undo Gaje | Gazi Khan, Chanan Khan, Multan Khan | Musician Communities of Rajasthan - the Manganiar. | Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology | 0 | 00:00 |
| Lunagar | Bhungar Khan accompanied by Basaya Khan and Shafi Khan | Musician Communities of Rajasthan - the Manganiar. | Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology | 0 | 00:00 |
| Dohl drum performance | Taal India | Recorded by an ArtsEdge producer in a Kennedy Center rehearsal room. | n-a | 2011 | 00:00 |
| Babul Jo Tum Ne Sikhaya | Sharda Sinha | Hum Aapke Hain Hain Koun. | RPG | 2007 | 00:00 |
| Let's do the Hadippa | n-a | Yash Raj Films. | soundtrack of the film "Let's Do The Hadippa" | 2009 | 00:00 |
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Produced for ArtsEdge, a program of the Education Department of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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