Classical music
Music is an art form and a cultural activity whose medium is sound and silence,which exist in time.It is made up of pitch,rythm,dynamics etc.There are different categories in music.Major types of music which we consider the ancient times,most difficult and best music form amongest all is a 'classical music'.There are different parts in Indian classical music.The North Indian classical music is called as Hindusthani music and South Indian music is called as Carnatic music.In this music there are also different categories such as different gharanas,different ragas etc.
Here i would like to elaborate more about hindusthani classical music whatever knowledge which i have about classical music.Their two forms are namely classical sangeet and sugam sangeet..sugam sangeet includes films songs,poems,bhaavgeet,bhajan,gajal etc whereas classical music includes khayaal gaayan,natyageet,thumri etc.There was a time when music was learnt for getting peace and happiness, a medium to connect to the god for the satisfaction of our soul and heart but today people learning it to show their own greatness which brought a huge competitions among artists.
Classical music has many mandatory restrictions.It includes ragas(rag),taal,and while performing any raag we havw to maintain the correct tempo in the given taal and make it more attractive and interesting.
The starting point(1st matra) of any taal is called as a ''Sum'' which is the most precious and most important in the field of music.By taking the support of the sum an artist uses his skills and efforts to perform a particular aag in a given taal.An artist starts a particular raag from sum,uses his all skills and talent,makes different variations and again comes on sum with the help of taal which is the most important for which he is applauded by the audience which is the true successful outcome of any artist.This all can only happen if you have a good riyaaz of classical music most importantly the "Alankaras''(sa,re,ga)....Riyaaz means practising the particular raag for several hours and it has got no time limit.The more you practise the more you gain,more is the chance to get it to the perfection and obviously it will result in more and more better outcome while performing.There is a saying that nobody is perfect in music and its true because music has no end it goes more deeper and deeper having no end point...To become successful in music an individual has to have a good riyaaz and it is said that even we learn music in our entire life we cannot finish learning it...
Music is a type of entertainment which gives us lots of joy and happiness and true peace of life.Me as a student gives me lot of happiness while learning my classical music and peace of getting direct connection with god.I will always try my best to learn this art and i will make the best of it for that i need god blessings....
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