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'''Indian music''' is one of the major microtonal traditions of the world (along with the [[Arabic, Turkish, Persian music|Middle Eastern]] family of traditions). It has two main subcategories: South Indian music known as Carnatic and North Indian music known as Hindustani.
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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">Indian music is one of the important microtonal music traditions (along with the [[Arabic, Turkish, Persian|arabic/turkish/persian]] tradtition).


The basic element is the shruti (sometimes spelled šruti, sruti or shruthi), which roughly corresponds to a quartertone. There are 22 shrutis per octave - however, it is not [[22edo]]; the shrutis are of different sizes.
The unit of measurement in the Indian system is the '''shruti''' (sometimes spelled śruti, sruti or shruthi), which corresponds roughly to a quarter-tone. There are 22 shrutis per octave, 13 per fifth and 9 per fourth. A size of 4 shruti for the major whole tone follows from that. The step sizes of the heptatonic scales ([[shadja grama]], [[madhyama grama]]) are given as sequences of 4, 3, and 2 shruti.
An explanation about the shruti system and the derivation of the 22 shrutis can be found on:


http://www.carnaticcorner.com/articles/22_srutis.htm</pre></div>
There is no single standardized non-ambiguous definition of the exact sizes of all shruti intervals.
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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Indian&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;Indian music is one of the important microtonal music traditions (along with the &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/Arabic%2C%20Turkish%2C%20Persian"&gt;arabic/turkish/persian&lt;/a&gt; tradtition).&lt;br /&gt;
An explanation about the shruti system and one traditional derivation of the 22 shrutis is given in S. Vidyasankar's essay [http://www.carnaticcorner.com/articles/22_srutis.htm ''Derivation of the 22 Srutis''].
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The basic element is the shruti (sometimes spelled šruti, sruti or shruthi), which roughly corresponds to a quartertone. There are 22 shrutis per octave - however, it is not &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/22edo"&gt;22edo&lt;/a&gt;; the shrutis are of different sizes.&lt;br /&gt;
Another example of a compilation of the shrutis, with explicit values of the intervals, can be found in ''[[A shruti list]]''.
An explanation about the shruti system and the derivation of the 22 shrutis can be found on:&lt;br /&gt;
 
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The system has been approximated by [[22edo]], though the traditional tuning system is unequal, and split-shruti systems may approximated by the 22 & 34d (or 12 & 22 or even 10 & 12 generalized [[diaschismic family|diaschismic]] if simplicity or accuracy is no object) temperament.
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The {{w|Shruti (music)|Wikipedia entry on shrutis}} gives a quite accurate approximation of the shruti system as a 22-note subset of [[53edo]]. (See also a discussion on the [https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_104546.html#104549 Yahoo tuning list])
 
Some derivations in the light of modern temperament theory: ''[[Magic22 as srutis]]''
 
== Other links ==
* [http://tonalsoft.com/monzo/indian/indian.htm Article on indian tuning in Joseph Monzo's tuning encyclopedia]
* [http://homepage.mac.com/patrickmoutal/macmoutal/rag.html Patrick Moutal's Indian Music Page]
* [http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/%7Emrahaim/ Hindustani Music Resources] - downloads and links, compiled by Matt Rahaim
* http://www.musicresearch.in (redirected to [http://musicresearchlibrary.net/omeka/ MusicResearchLibrary]) - an indian music research portal
* [http://chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/ www.chandrakantha.com - Indian classical music]- portal on indian music, with detailed [http://chandrakantha.com/raga_raag/ descriptions of a number of north indian rags]
* http://22shruti.com 22shruti.com
 
 
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