Research topic: Hindu music

Hindu music The music of India is entirely monodic. To Westerners it is the most accessible of all Asian musical cultures. Its tonal system divides the octave into 22 segments called srutis, not all equal but each roughly equal to one quarter of a whole tone of Western music. The basic scales are sa-grama and ma-grama. The more important of these, the sa-grama, closely approximates the C Major scale. Ma-grama, which differs from the sa-grama in only one interval, is said to have disappeared from use about the 16th cent. Other scales are derived fr... Read more