Music Education - by Chaitanya Kunte. India has a rich tradition of music from Vedic age. Peeping into history, we got to know that there was Guru-Shishya tradition or Gurukul system for music education in India for a long time. We know that there are broadly 4 eras of Indian Music history - Vedic period, Puranic period, Natyashastra period The sitar, the tabla and the flute are some of the most popular Indian musical instruments. The sitar is a plucked string instrument that is commonly used in Hindustani classical music. The tabla is a percussion instrument that is typically used in North Indian classical music. The flute is a wind instrument that is commonly used in Carnatic History. Earliest records of Indian folk music are found in the Vedic literature, which dates back to 1500 BC. Some scholars and experts even suggest that the Indian folk music could be as old as the country itself. For instance, Pandavani, a folk music popular in most parts of Central India, is believed to be as old as the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The Shehnai is a wind musical instrument that originated in the Indian subcontinent. It is crafted from wood and features a mouthpiece at one end and a flared bell made of metal or wood at the other end. It is classified as an aerophone and has a double-reed mouthpiece attached to its wooden body. The shehnai features a conical shape both on Raga. A raga ( IAST: rāga, IPA: [ɾäːɡ]; also raaga or ragam or raag; lit. 'coloring' or 'tingeing' or 'dyeing' [1] [2]) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a melodic mode. [3] The rāga is a unique and central feature of the classical Indian music tradition, and as a result has no direct translation Mohori is a type of tribal and folk oboe used in India. The use of this wind instrument can be traced back a long way, almost to the 6th century AD. • Manjira - Musical Instrument Manjira, also known as tala, manjeera, jalra, kartal, or khartal, is a traditional Indian percussion instrument. It consists of a pair of small hand. .

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