Question

Please someone explain briefly about Hindustani music

Answer 1

Hindustani music, one of the two principal types of South Asian classical music, found mainly in the northern three-fourths of the subcontinent, where Indo-Aryan languages are spoken.A typical Hindustani performance, which may last well over an hour, begins with a long, nonmetric improvisation (alapa, or alap) by the singer or melodic soloist, followed by jor, or improvisation without metric cycle but with a perceptible pulse, and eventually by the similar but faster jhala. Then follows the composed piece, which is performed with improvised variations—most typically khayal (a poetic form) in vocal music and gat, a short, rhythmically distinctive theme, in instrumental music.