It not only has traditional and classical Indian music, but also gives the time, news, and important information about what is going on in India right now. The Total India resource is a site that has a link to just about anything that you would ever need to know about India. It is affiliated with the University of Texas and has many things that would be helpful in a K-12 setting as well as College age material. Back to top India s Music India has one of the worlds oldest and most sophisticated musical traditions. Its history stretches back at least thirty-five hundred years and involves the development of a great variety of vocal and instrumental music.
Some music is monophonic, which means that only the melodic line is used.
However, most of the music uses a drone harmony in which the drone instrument plays one note continuously throughout the song. The words in Indian music are not nearly as important as the sounds that are made, which is why the raga is the most important part of Indian music. The raga Indian melodies come from a predetermined series of pitches called ragas. Each of these ragas has a particular name and structure. The raga is different from the Western scale in that the pitches do not go straight up and down, but they move and around in a crooked manner.