The "raga" is the melodic form, but it is not just a scale, Shankar says. There are roughly 72 parent scales. And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Zakir Hussain, one of India's most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to global audiences, died on Sunday. He was 73. The Indian classical music ...

Zakir Hussain, one of India’s most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced the tabla to global audiences, died Dec. 15 at a hospital in San Francisco. He was 73. The cause ...

While most industry conversation around the crossover of south Asian music tends to focus on pop and hip-hop artists, some of ...

Lucknow: A blend of classical fusion music in ‘Lai Aur Sur Ka Safr’, an event organised by Taal Yatra enthralled the audience with a blend of tabla, folk and Western musical traditions at Rai Umanath ...

This raises an important and urgent question for Indian Classical Music: Do these AI systems actually have authentic Indian ...

Percussionist Sameer Gupta’s RootStock Arts will present the first ever Raga Fest at Medicine for Nightmares on 24th Street this Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. Credit: Rebecca Meek For the past year, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A celebration of Indian Classical Music unlike any other is happening in Chicago. The yearly "Ragamala" concert begins Friday night at the Chicago Cultural Center, and it goes all ...

Learn about the history, and future, of the musical art form. Devesh Chandra started playing the tabla (Indian hand drums) at age three, learning from the sounds of Northern Indian classical music ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earlier this year, at the age of 70, Chandrika Tandon won her first Grammy — and it may not be her last. “I was really trying to ...

Music transcends barriers, connecting people across the globe through a universal language. Anupam Shobhakar, an Indian-American musician based in New York, embodies this philosophy by seamlessly ...

Onstage at Ragamala 2018, from left: Ganapathi Ranganathan on kanjira, Patri Satish Kumar on mridangam, and Saraswathi Ranganathan on veena Credit: Courtesy of the City of Chicago In fall 2013, ...