🕵️‍♀️A MUSICAL JOURNEY TO HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL MUSIC 🎼🥁🎷🎺🎹🎻🪕

Fascinated about Hindustani classical music !

Do you know the basic knowledge about it?

If not , so it is not a very big topic. we are going to discuss about it in this blog.

So lets start our journey to Hindustani classical music .

🤔UNDERSTANDING of word “ CLASSICAL “

What does it mean?

For being classical:

• It should be very old and more than 500 years of history .
• The original form is still intact .

WANTED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT CLASSICAL : CLASSICAL IN DETAIL

Hindustani classical music is also one of the two parts of classical Indian music . Classical music in North India = HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL MUSIC .

AMIR KHUSRO HAS A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION IN THIS MUSIC

BASIS OF HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL MUSIC 🎙📯

There are six principle Ragas in Hindustani Music which are :

1 Time

2 Season

3 Mood

🎼COMPOSITION OF HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL MUSIC📻

There are various composition of Hindustani music . Some of them are as follows :

1. DHRUPAD

  MOTHER OF OTHER HINDUSTANI STYLES

• Oldest of Hindustani Music
• Has a vedic origin
• Also known as a temple music . Because it has emerged from temples .
• A serious and sober composition ( serious in topic and sober in music )
• It demands efforts from lungs and vocal cards
• Theme – Religious and devotional
• Lyrics – Bhraj language
• Accompanied by : Parhawaj and Tanpura
• Gharanas – Dagari , Darbangha , Bishnupur

2. KHAYAL

PERSIAN WORD WHICH MEANS IDEA , THOUGHT .

• Origin – Attributed to Khushrao
• More delicate and romantic than Dhrupad
• Has more freedom in structure and form
• Use of “ TAAN “ in music
• Equal emphasis on melody and rhythm
• Gharana – Gwalior , Kirana , Patiyala , Agra

3.DHAMAR

PERFORMED DURING HOLI THAT’S WHY ALSO CALLED HOLI DHAMAR

• Quite similar to Dhrupad
• Sung on Dhamad Taal
• Theme : Krishna – Gopi affairs
• Gharana – Awadh , Bhrajh

4.  TARANA

COMPOSED FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSE

• Rhythm is important in it
• Popular among Aristrocratic class of North India

5. TAPPA

DEVELOPED BY CAMEL RIDER’S OF NORTH WEST

• This system become popular among  singers of Punjab. He started to compose fast songs . It has quick turns of phrases.

6. DADRA

CLOSELY RELATED TO THUMRI

• Originally sung on Dhadra
• Lyrics – Bhrajh or Urdu
• Topics –  Mundane (very common )

7. QAWWALI

ATTRIBUTED TO SUFI AND ORIGINATED BY AMIR KHUSHRAO

• It is related to God
• In UR FESTIVAL , all Sufis gathered at Dharga . They sing Qawwali there to connect with God
• Small couplets composed

8. GHAZAL

INFLUENCE OF PERSIANS

•  Theme – everything ( romance , sadness , devotion and so on)
• Composed as independent couplet
• Love or erotic poetry is basically an underlined  sufi element .
• mythical , secular and philosophical way
• Mirza Galib  was one of the famous singers in starting .

9. THUMRI

INFLUENCED BY BHKTI SAINTS OF NORTH INDIA

• Florished by Nawab Wajid Ali Shah .
• It is based on mixed ragas , light religious and romantic words
• Lyrics of text – Bhrajh bhasha
• There are two types of Thumri . First is Urbi Thumri and second is Punjabi Thumri
• Gharana- Lucknow , Banaras

SOME FAMOUS SINGERS OF HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL MUSIC 🎤🎙🎧🎶

HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL MUSIC IS SPREADING ITS BEAUTY ALL AROUND. IT IS SOULFUL AND BRINGS ENERGY IN ONE’S LIFE.

There are a lot of singers who have created history in this era .

Lets know  few names  :

1. Miyan Tansen
2. Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
3. Hariprasad Chaurasia
4. MS Subbulakshmi
5. Bismillah Khan
6. Ravi Shankar
7.   Zakir Hussain
8. Shiv Kumar Sharma

Now lets stay tuned and explore different things in next blog.