Archive for the ‘Indian Songs’ Category
An Introduction to Indian Music
Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul. Indian music is known for its melody and richness of emotion. The roots of Indian music can be traced to Vedas (the religious books of knowledge). To many believers, music was created by God Himself. For them it was something divine, something heavenly. That is sole reason we find earlier Indian music as ritualistic with hymns sung to God (Bahagwan). Brahma the thought writer of Sema Veda patterned Indian music on three notes and it was sung in plain rhyme. This music then underwent modifications in the Mughal era by styles of Dhrupad, Dhamar, Khayal. Read the rest of this entry »
An Overview of Indian Songs
Choosing the best items from a huge selection is definitely a difficult task and same is the case when it comes to write about the most popular and most beautifully sung Indian songs. Indian cinema is quite an older one and so many so many movies have been made since the advent f Indian cinema. This has created such a vast panorama of songs hat it becomes very difficult to choose some amongst such a wide array of songs. So many singers have come and gone but the classic songs being sung by them are still afresh in our memories along with the newer ones. It is definitely a very difficult task to pick a selection of a few songs from a plethora of songs. Read the rest of this entry »