Module 1

Orientation

What Carnatic music is, how it relates to Hindustani music, and how it is learned.

1. 1. What is Carnatic music?

   The idea of a melody-first tradition built on raga and tala, with composed and improvised music.

2. 2. Carnatic and Hindustani music

   What the two classical traditions of India share, and how they differ, stated neutrally.

3. 3. How the tradition is passed on

   Teacher-to-student learning, the traditional order of lessons, and improvisation within structure.