Mind & Music - Demystifying Thumri Maestros

Indian classical music has two foundational elements, raga and tala. The raga forms a melody structure while the tala measures the time cycle. But the uniting feature of both the systems of music is the Raga System. Indian music has one of the most advanced and scientific systems of categorization of the melodic entities known as ragas and an equally sophisticated sense of rhythmic patterns or talas.