Hindustani Instrumental Music

Current stylistic schools ( gharānā ) of instrumental music draw heavily on sitar and sarod music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in their compositions and improvisations. But the instrumental tradition has not been immune to change, and a comparison of early twentieth century recorded examples and performances in the 1990s shows that tempo ranges have increased, more emphasis is placed on virtuosic scalar improvisations, and technical variety and difficulty have increased...