How many ragas are there in hindustani music?
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There is no exact count of ragas which are there in Indian classical music. Once ustad Vilayat Khan saheb in Sawai Gandharva Music festival said before beginning his performance - "There are approximately about 4 lakh ragas in hindustani classical music. Many of them are repetitious but have different names. But there are some 30 ragas which are very famous and performed regularly. There are about 90 ragas which are not very famous and are performed rarely. Some of the legendary people create their own ragas like Ud. Ali Akbar Khan saheb created raga Chandranandan. Some of them are 'Jod Ragas' that is combination of two or more ragas".
Apart from Ustadji's comments, there are many ragas which are taken from carnatic classical music in hindustani classical music. In my opinion, considering hindustani and carnatic classical music together which are the major constituents of Indian classical music, there is huge number of ragas.
Gharanas originated from difference in opinions & perspectives about the way in ragas should be rendered or what kind of content makes a performance complete etc...
For example In Agra Gharana, rhythmic variations are of high importance where as in Kirana Gharana, step by step improvising the approaches of rendering swaras in the raga one by one are of great importance. In Gwalior Gharana, singing Mukhda and Antara are sung in starting only and the improvisations follow after that. In Jaipur Gharana, Rhythmic improvisations and applying some force to swaras from your belly to make the renditions more powerful, have great importance. Again these are not hardcore rules but make characteristics of a Gharana.
Now a days, people don't usually follow Gharanas. People make good performances by applying and mixing properties of different Gharanas. In old times, hearing performances of other Gharanas than the person who is learning a particular gharana, was not allowed. Only the teachers/gurus, after attaining a lot of knowledge and experience in their own career, used to attend music concerts. Also while performing, the words of the bandish used to be twisted in such a way that listeners couldn't understand the words but used to enjoy performances.
This was to avoid the specific gharana bandish from getting copied and to keep the legacy with that gharana only.
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Apart from Ustadji's comments, there are many ragas which are taken from carnatic classical music in hindustani classical music. In my opinion, considering hindustani and carnatic classical music together which are the major constituents of Indian classical music, there is huge number of ragas.
Gharanas originated from difference in opinions & perspectives about the way in ragas should be rendered or what kind of content makes a performance complete etc...
For example In Agra Gharana, rhythmic variations are of high importance where as in Kirana Gharana, step by step improvising the approaches of rendering swaras in the raga one by one are of great importance. In Gwalior Gharana, singing Mukhda and Antara are sung in starting only and the improvisations follow after that. In Jaipur Gharana, Rhythmic improvisations and applying some force to swaras from your belly to make the renditions more powerful, have great importance. Again these are not hardcore rules but make characteristics of a Gharana.
Now a days, people don't usually follow Gharanas. People make good performances by applying and mixing properties of different Gharanas. In old times, hearing performances of other Gharanas than the person who is learning a particular gharana, was not allowed. Only the teachers/gurus, after attaining a lot of knowledge and experience in their own career, used to attend music concerts. Also while performing, the words of the bandish used to be twisted in such a way that listeners couldn't understand the words but used to enjoy performances.
This was to avoid the specific gharana bandish from getting copied and to keep the legacy with that gharana only.
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