INDIAN MUSIC Its Characteristics WESTERN Music Differences INDIAN

INDIAN MUSIC: Its Characteristics

WESTERN Music Differences INDIAN Music ØClassical >May be heard orchestra is often in both in and out heard inside the hall concert hall ØLarge number >Usually made of instrumentalist up of three players

>Based on Harmony >Based on Melody – single notes >Leads to a variegated dance through the endless >Draws the listeners away rise and fall of human grief beyond the limits of every and joy day human joys and sorrows >Singing of a song is a secular and formal exercise >Not involving devotion or piety >Vocal singing is an act of worship >Evokes a spiritual sentiments and disciplinea longing for realization of the self salvation

>Western music is vertical >The Indian system is – several notes at a time horizontal, one note following the other >No foundation of harmony and counterpart >Musical performance, >A composer first while the grammar of composes the music and puts it in notation: later the melody and rhythm is fixed, the skill and ingenuity of players play the musicians lies on his under the guidance of improvisations and conductor creativity >Indian notes are divided >Western music has only into small units. 12 semitones

>Capable of producing many moods and feelings >Classical music such range of individual improvisation is inconceivable >Has a generally a principal mood or emotion >Musicians improvise his own creativity within the framework of raga

Similarities WESTERN Music Based on melody and rhythm INDIAN Music Based on melody and rhythm