Concerts
Every concert carries a tradition forward.
Saptami presents Carnatic and Hindustani programmes, gives artists a stage and an audience, and keeps the concert form at the centre of how this music is learned.
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Concerts on video
Recordings and short films, held apart from the listings above so a performance is easy to find on its own.
About Music
Carnatic and Hindustani
Saptami's work begins with the music itself — two classical traditions, the vocal and instrumental disciplines inside them, and the concerts through which they reach an audience.
Carnatic Music
The classical tradition of South India, built on raga and tala, with a strong emphasis on composition and on improvisation within a fixed form. Concerts are typically led by a vocalist with violin and mridangam accompaniment.
Hindustani Music
The classical tradition of North India, known for extended raga development that unfolds slowly across a performance, and for the gharana system through which its lineages are transmitted.
Music begins where the possibilities of language end.
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Many ways into the same tradition
Vocal
The voice is the reference point for both traditions; instrumental phrasing is taught in relation to it.
Instrumental
String, wind and plucked instruments carry melodic lines with their own idioms and repertoire.
Percussion
Rhythm is a discipline in its own right, with solo forms, spoken syllables and long cycles.