Beautiful melodies and rhythms are produced by the Musical Instruments of Ancient India. Although numerous modern instruments have developed over time, the instruments of ancient times still hold a significant place in the world of Indian music. These musical instruments are the testaments of the glor...
Tharun Sekar, with one of the yazh he crafted from a single block of wood, wants to bring back lost musical instruments.Naveen Sekar How did you transition from building guitars to crafting ancient Indian instruments? During my time in Auroville, I wondered why I was only making Western inst...
The musicians from the prestigious Siong Leng Musical Association are reaching out to contemporary music fans by introducing western elements such as keyboards, tabla and even a cappella singers into Nanyin. The artists also brought in traditional Malay and Indian instruments to reflect Singapore’s m...
At the scene, a special exhibition hall was set up and renovated by the National Museum of India, where Indian viewers were impressed with orderly and exquisite Chinese wares. Sun Weidong, Chinese ambassador to China, said at the opening ceremony that it took more than one year to prepare f...
Early Arabic music was influenced by Byzantine, Indian and Persian forms, which were themselves heavily influenced by earlier Greek, Semitic, and ancient Egyptian music. The tonal structure of Arabic music is defined by the maqamat, loosely similar to Western modes, while the rhythm of Arabic musi...
Herodotus (fifth century) mentioned a semifantastic story about Phoenician voyages around Libya (Africa) at the turn of the sixth century and the story of the voyage of Scylax of Caria (end of the sixth and beginning of the fifth century) down the Indus River and across the Indian Ocean ...
4. With reference to the Indian History, who among the following is a future Buddha, yet to come to save the world? (a) Avalokiteshvara (b) Lokesvara (c) Maitreya (d) Padmapani 5. The well-known painting "Bani Thani" belongs to the ...
far away to understand something nearby. This seems to be the case with the discovery of a complete set of copper cymbals in Oman, which have allowed archaeologists to be much more sure that similar finds of only one cymbal in Mohenjo-daro and elsewhere were actually musical instruments. ...
This seems to be the case with the discovery of a complete set of copper cymbals in Oman, which have allowed archaeologists to be much more sure that similar finds of only one cymbal in Mohenjo-daro and elsewhere were actually musical instruments. Read more about Bronze Age cymbals from Da...
Japan became a great empire in a short time, which expanded to Asia, and the Pacific and Indian oceans, a period in which it subdued India, Korea and the rest of Asia, save Vietnam committing all kinds of atrocities. Its empire came to an end when in the Second World War, the United...