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Music of India

• Republic of India
• Seventh largest country
• Second most populous country in the world
• Second largest rail network in the world
• Hindu people
• Rinse their hands legs face before eating a
meal
• Eat with right hand
• No food is wasted
• Balete tree Banyan or Indian Fig Tree
• Tree of immortality
• India’s national tree
• Hinduism and Music of India
• Music and dance is part of Hindu worship in
the temples.
• One of the richest musical traditions in the
world
• Musical history is based on its religion,
Hinduism
• Vedism – religion that was created by the
warrior society of India known as the Aryan
race.
• Worships nature
• Sound is God and every sound is a
manifestation of God.

• Vedas the Four Books of Knowledge


• Rig Veda hymns of the gods of nature
• Sama Veda oldest collection of notated
melodies

• Passed down through oral tradition


Heart of a musical tradition
• Guru (Master/Spiritual Teacher)
• Vinaya (Humility)
• Sadhana (Practice and Discipline)
• Guru teaches the Vedas to the student
• Representation of God
• choice of Guru is more important than
choosing a husband or wife.
• Vinaya – humility
• One who feels love reverence and respect
• Fear to his Gurus and elders
• Sadhana importance of practice and discipline
• 8 hours every day
• From guru to self-studying

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