Composer Reena Esmail breaks down the difference between raga and tala in Indian classical music, and how their function compares to scales and rhythms in Western classical music. Host Scott Yoo then ...

The "raga" is the melodic form, but it is not just a scale, Shankar says. There are roughly 72 parent scales. And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six ...

Drexel University’s Main Building will be the site for the first 24-hour North Indian Hindustani classical music concert, the Raga Samay Festival, to take place in the Western Hemisphere in decades.

NEW YORK - Music is rarely the subject of news from Afghanistan. War, terrorism, corruption, and other such topics have dominated the headlines. And if the Taliban - who outlawed all music save ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — As the world gets smaller and more accessible, deep-rooted musical traditions can be shared more readily between musicians of different disciplines. The public has a chance to ...

In the world of classical music, Ranjani and Gayatri are RaGa, the Carnatic collective name that has come to define the genre ...

Globally acclaimed pianist and composer Charu Suri only discovered jazz four years ago. Suri, who kicks off a four-night residency at Detroit’s Cliff Bell’s jazz club Thursday, March 7, had been a ...