The Concept of a Raga – I
The concept of the Raga, without doubt, is the key to understanding Indian classical music. The core of Indian classical music, it is often said, lies in the exploration, elaboration and the unfolding of a raga in all its beauty. Hence, the great practitioners of the art have called raga “the soul of Indian music, “a way of seeing the world through sound,” and as a unique, exquisite form, “which the bandish and the tala…