When people are told about Indian music they show a face of disgust or they just say you are weird, because that music can not be good. They are wrong. Indian music does not consist in a long bearded guy playing the flute in front of a snake that is going out of a jar and looking at the musician with a strangeness face. Indian music goes from pop to classic music, passing through folk. It is very closely related to religion, and it has been in constant development for a lot of centuries.
There are two main types of classic Indian music: Carnatic, found predominantly in the peninsular regions, and Hindustani, found in the northern, eastern and central regions. Their tonal system divides the octave into 22 segments called shrutis, not all equal but each roughly similar to one quarter of a whole tone of Western music. Both types of music are melodic, with improvised variations, but Carnatic music tends to have more fixed compositions than Hindustani music.
Another of the music types writen above, is folk. Folk is one of the most important kind of music in India, having a vast amount of subgenders: Rabindra Sangeet, Dandiya and Lavani are three of them.
To finish, popular music is generally composed by Film music and Rock & Metal. Both very different from each other, they have benn very influenced by western music and have way too much things in common with the ones present in the rest of the world.
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