The most known sitar, of the string instruments of India, popularized in
Ociident by Delighted Shankar inter alia. It is used since nearly 700
years the sitar has mobile hoops and cords whose order is reversed. It
has 20 hoops and 6 or 7 cords to be played below which 19 cords
sympathetic nerves are placed. The cords are scraped using a plectrum.
Will tampura is the instrument which maintains in constant bumblebee
it tonic in all the Indienne music. It has 4 to 6 cords. Its role
is fundamental for the constitution of the sound atmosphere of a raga.
The regular repetition of let us microtons defines the field where will
take place the improvisation of the soloist.
Formerly, the Hindu princes (maharajas) and the
Moslem princes (nabobs) controlled Inde. They struck the imagination
from abroad by their immense fortune and by imposing their festivals
organized in their Palaces. The music has a divine origin for the
Indians. Indeed, according to Indian mythology it is by the music that
Brahma created the universe. The musician must thus be in a state of
complete abandonment at the time to play in order to be in fusion with
the fundamental principle of the Universe, which is its musical. The
origine of Indian classical music goes back to vedic times. The vedic
anthems oldest were sung by using only three notes. Between the XIVe
and the XVIIIe centuries, the influence of the Persan music and moghole
in the North of India caused the separation of the Indian music in two
styles : the music hindustani in North and carnatic music in the South.
The seven notes of the saptak are as follows : Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni.
Let us notice in the passing which the Indian music connait ten modes
whereas the Western classical music mainly used only the modes major
and minor. The jazz and the contemporary music rediscovered the use of
the other modes...
