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Refers to music of South India.

These are devotional song compositions.

The other term for nasal singing.

The most common style of singing which means “imagination”.

A style of singing developed into a strong diverse tradition over several centuries.

A sacred text where sung as Samagana and not chanted.

An ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns.

Also known as blown air, characterized using air to excite the various resonators.

Instruments in this class are plucked.

Developed in the 13th and 14th centuries AD with Persian influences and from existing religious and folk music.