Music

With its humble beginnings at block parties in NYC in the 1970s, the rap genre soon gained recognition in the music industry. The 1980s and 1990s were dominated by Tupac and Biggie, but later on Nas, Eminem and several other great minds entered the scene as well. With the mix of other music genres by […]

Video consumption is on the rise and there are many online streaming services that are capturing the market including NetFlix and Amazon Prime Videos. However, YouTube remains one of the most favorite video portals because of the ease with which it can be used atop the fact that it is free to use. The feature

Indian Classical Music Indian music is sublime in its expression, deep in its origin, majestic in its speed, and all-encompassing in its subtlety. “Sangeet—संगीत” or “Gān—गान”, as it is known in Indian languages, is a form of worship or a mode through which the exponent offers his/her prayers to his/her chosen deity or any form

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi was born on February 4, 1922 and is one of the pillar of Hindustani classical vocalists. I can say without reserve that if you have any love for Indian classical music, there is no chance you miss listening to this great doyen who spellbinds the listener with exquisite

Santoor–the Indian string musical instrument Well, I am pretty sure that if you have any sort of interest in Indian classical music, you have come across the divinely inspired music of Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma and his mastery over Santoor. At the same time, you might also have heard Pandit Bhajan Sopori who uses different

Veena–classical Indian musical instrument (वीणा) Veena is one of the three modes for expressions of music in India–Veena, Venu (Flute), and Vani (Voice). Veena (vīṇā) is an instrument associated with Goddess of Music and Education: Saraswati. She is hailed as Veena-vaadini, the one who plays this instrument called Veena. So, Veena gets a high pedestal

Importance of sound and music Now we come to second most important factor of sound–music. Music is nothing but sound! In Physics, the classical definition of music was: the sound that is pleasing to the ears is music; the sound that is displeasing is noise. However, this definition did not stand the fundamentals of science

Indian Bamboo Flute–Bansuri, Venu Indian bamboo flute is one of the oldest instruments used in Indian music—both North Indian classical music and South Indian classical music. In the Vedas also, the name of flute is mentioned: Vani, Vènu, and Veena. This Vènu or Venu is the meaning of flute—the name Vènu is still very popular

Tabla तबला The Tabla (तबला), Tablā, is one of the main percussion instruments that are used in Indian music. Right from the North Indian classical music to the most recent types of music, Tabla has been able to keep its place and popularity among the listeners. Table has replaced almost all other percussion instruments due

Pakhawaj–Indian Drum (पखावज) Pakhwaj (पखावज) is called the mother of North Indian style drums—the world famous drum called Tabla came from this instrument. Legend goes that famous musician Amir Khusro was playing Pakhawaj and it broke in two pieces—when he tried to play the pieces, it worked and from here came the new instrument called