A week Moon placement in the birth chart tends to make an individual more susceptible to emotional instabilities coupled with ...

There is a wealth of ragas in the broad field of Indian classical music, each with the special capacity to arouse feelings and alter the listener's mood. Among them, some ragas are well known for ...

Dikshitar inserted the raga mudra in many (but not all) of his compositions whereas Tyagaraja and Syama Sastri did not insert it at all. Two of Tyagaraja’s compositions have a raga mudra — ‘Ganamurthe ...

The luxurious pastures of this raga – Kodipalai in ancient Tamizh music; the regal Kharaharapriya in Carnatic music – are evergreen and have stood the test of time for centuries. A sampoorna (complete ...

"It's no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are heal." - Ed. Northstrum There is a limited amount of scientific literature on the idea behind Indian classical music as a healing ...

Amit Chaudhuri’s teenage discovery of the raga transformed his understanding of music, connecting it to the rhythms of life and challenging Western artistic conventions. While most good books could ...

Jazz and Indian ragas share common ground in their traditional use of improvisation. They are often talked about in compatible terms, but Ravi Shankar, for one, did not believe that ragas could be ...

When you enter an Indian restaurant or an ethnic grocery store, you may have heard a unique melody that is not Japanese or Western music. That music is based on a mode called ' raga ' and is said to ...