In 2009, Smithsonian Folkways assumed stewardship of the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music, a pioneering series of more than 100 field recordings from around the world. First out of the vault is ...

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 ...

Learn about the history, and future, of the musical art form. Devesh Chandra started playing the tabla (Indian hand drums) at age three, learning from the sounds of Northern Indian classical music ...

An old joke goes as follows: A young music student, visiting New York City, asks, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” The answer comes quickly: “Practice.” To become—and stay—great in music (or any ...

Subramanian is a technology executive and classic music teacher. She lives in Carmel Valley. One of my earliest childhood memories is of listening to and learning the South Indian classical music ...

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 ...

Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Grammy-winning composer A.R. Rahman (“Slumdog Millionaire”) and the KM Music Conservatory have unveiled the Bharat Maestro Awards, a new initiative celebrating Indian ...

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 ...